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...SPE 9544 .. THE SEARCH FOR OIL AND GAS IN MEXICO. Conference held before ING. CESAR O. B.APTl STA the Society of Petroleu...
..." THE SEARCH FOR OIL AND GAS IN MEXICO I would like to thank the organizing committee of this simposium, in part...
...all be. an important force to promote the gro'Nth of the tv1exican indus ry. 1 n addition to the search of ne v structures in the four producing provinces already mentioned, exploratory work is p rf...
Throughout a large portion of the world, the evolution of society during the last one hundred and fifty years has been truly impressive. The dramatic improvement of the standard of living that has favored large human conglomerates has been of such an extent, that it has no precedent within the history of humankind. The physical force which has contributed more to this transformation has been, no doubt, the abundant availability and the ample use of growing amounts of energy. As a peer presence within this, we have to mention the unusual impact of oil and gas during this century, and specially during the last fifty years. At present, the availability and use of energy are still the elements which influence more the economic growth and well-being of any country. Today, around 70% of the world energy production depends upon oil and natural gas, and for the rest of this century and the beginning of the next, these natural hydrocarbons will continue supplying more than half of this total energy requirements. However, we must always remember, that oil and gas come from sources that do not renew themselves, and which may someday become extinct. Because of this, energy from these sources must be used in rational ways, striving to attain a more orderly transition from the era of hydrocarbons to the era of the sources of energy that will substitute them. Moreover, we think that with an adequate petroleum and gas exploration and with world wide use of better petroleum engineering, hydrocarbons might bear its logical share of the energy consumption for an even larger period, may be for a full century or somewhat more, and in that manner they can perform as an effective bridge between the present era of petroleum and the new era of those other sources of energy which will be unavoidably needed to replace hydrocarbons.
- North America > Mexico > Tabasco > Bellota-Jujo > Sureste Basin > Comalcalco Basin > Cardenas Field (0.99)
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...176 GENETIC PROBLEMS AFFECTING SEARCH FOR NEW OIL REGIONS Genetic Problems Affecting ...Search for New Oil Regions By DAVro WHITE,· WASHINGTON, D. C. (New York Meeting, February, 1920) IN...
...ricts containing little carbonaceous matter may prove to be a rule with numerous exceptions. In the search for oil in regions containing thick series of strata so barren of carbonaceous matter as the "Red B...
...178 GENETIC PROBLEMS AFFECTING SEARCH FOR NEW OIL REGIONS present moment, to be somewhat insistent. As bearing in a practical wayon this...
In these days, when detailed investigations of stratigraphy, structure, andsand conditions so frequently result in the discovery of new oil fields, andapplause from oil companies and the public, geologists do well to walk humbly, and punctiliously to admit that the geologic principles controlling thedistribution of oil and gas have as yet been discovered only in part, and thatwhat remains yet to be learned is probably vastly more than what is alreadyknown. The few experiments already attempted have been fragmentary, andsomewhat desultory, and however positive each of us may be with respect tocertain theoretical conclusions, many of the fundamental questions as to theorigin and mode of occurrence of petroleum are subject to radical disagreement.Of the chemical changes attending the generation of petroleum from organicmatter, little is actually known. Most of the postulated formulas are liable tobe misleading, through ignorance of essential factors. Open-mindedness istherefore a prime essential at the present stage of our science. Nevertheless, adopting the hypothesis that oil originates in some manner fundamentallyconnected with the organic theory, and in possible departure from suchopen-mindedness, the writer will pay no attention to the so-called inorganictheory, since every attempt to apply this theory to the study of old oilfields, or to the discovery of new ones, affords cumulative evidence of itsinadequacy. In this paper, some of the factors affecting the occurrence of petroleum thatthe writer believes worthy of consideration by the prospector for oil in anynew region will be discussed. Some of these, which are less generallyunderstood, will be considered somewhat in detail. Other points, thesignificance of which cannot now be determined, require more field study, andfor that reason are here brought to the attention of the field geologist. Onthe other hand, certain theoretical points which do not bear especially on theoil possibilities of a new region will be given little or no attention. Themain topics that will be discussed are:sufficiency of carbonaceousdetritus and residues in the oil-forming rocks; stage of carbonization ofthe organic matter in the oil-bearing formations; folding of the strata; thickness of sedimentary formations; conditions of deposition. AIME 065–21
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...RECENT ADVANCES, POLITICAL AND GEOLOGICAL, IN CONNECTION WITH THE SEARCH FOROIL IN AUSTRALIA by ARTHUR WADE, D. SC., A. R. C. Sc., F. G. S., M. Inst. M. M., M. Inst...e' paper 'deals ii!itlr 1h.e recent c11angP.s in Public and Political opinion irlith regard. to the search for oil in Allstralia and gives n brief resump of wcrnt Acts and Ordinances which have been pas... and her dependances. Folloirlinq on this. flip avthor drals with the fl,rea,.s irpon which the search for oil is noríc; concentrating. Five such nrem in AIlkfTalifl arp mantioned. niz, The Great Arfesi...
...drillers and geologists, for intensive work on their properties. For the most part the leaders The search for oil in Australia is now confined to the are tralian Americans or Canadians, the assistants bei...ngagea courses of the Ashburton atnd Murchison Rivers and or who niay contemplate engaging upon the search for îringes the western coast of Western Australia. oil. Similarly the Ordinances lo rcgiilnte Mini...the Gippsland The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia also passed twn bills relating to the search for petroleum during 1936. The first is descrihed FIS (1 An .4ct relating to the Encouragemen...
...k to produce an overfolded margin along a North-South \vhich is now in progress a8nd upon which the search zone and facing eastwards tomards the coast. Topographically for oil in now being concentrated. th...ed work done by the geologists those of the Triassic ancl so on. \Vel1 deiined closed of (1 Oil Search )I Ltd. bores are being put down on structures have been disc,overeld by the geologists of clos... Pre-Cambrian granites and schists to red coloiired , activities of the geologists of (1 Oil Search II Ltd. in Devonian Sediments. The basin itself is obviously the ...
RESUME L'auteur erpcle les chan!lements r6crnt.s 7 ui se son1 produiia Jans l'opinion publiqvre el gouvernementaln concernant leb Trcherches de pétrole r'n Australie et donne un bref rPsum! d es récentes (.onventions et brdonnnncrs adoptées par difiPrentes administrations d'P1al.s. d~ territoirrs ou par le gouvernement fPdPTal. dnns le but d'encourager ou de poursuivre. les trovaicz de recherches de pétrolr Pn Australie rf dans ses dépendances. L'auleur citi? en.suitr Zer régions SUT lesqu, ellr.s se concentrent actuellement les TeChf?TCliel dd pCtrole. Cino rdgions sont m?nlionnCes ir cP1 6 gnTd: lr grand Bassin Arlésien. le bassin de Sidney, le hnssin de Gippsland, l, e bassin du DPsert rI le bassin du Nord-Ouest. 11 erpose I-riPrement ce que l'on sail actuellemeril des conditions géologiques existan1 d ans chacune de ces régions. SUMMARY T he ‘paper’ deals ii!itlr 1h.e recent c11angP.s in Public and Political opinion irlith regard. to the search for oil in Allstralia and gives n brief resump of wcrnt Acts and Ordinances which have been passed by various Slate. ‘l’rrritorial and Common ~rirallh Governments, in order, to encoiiragr and further the ?riork of seekinq for oil in Au.ntralia and her dependances. Folloirlinq on this. flip avthor drals with the fl, rea,.s irpon which the search for oil is norÍc; concentrating. Five such nrem in AIlkfTalifl arp mantioned. niz, The Great Arfesian Basin. the .rydn, e?i Rasin. th? Gippdan, d Ranin, the Drserl Rasin, unri the North west Basin. T he qeological conditions which have hren ascertained to exist in each of tliese areas are hrieflli descl.ihed Oil is beinq ohfainPr1 from uwlls in the Gippxlan, d Rosin. Rn'ef references are made io recent advan, ces which have taken place in Papua and New Guinea. AUSZUG V erfasser stellt den iilngsten IJmschlmng der ¿if[enflich, en und behdrdlichen Anschau-IiBgrn beziiglich der Erdölsuche in Australien dar und gibt einen kurzen Tleherhlick IiheT d ie durch die verschiedenen Staccts, Ld, nder und Gem.eindeveruia, ltungtn erlassenen-Gesetze u nd Anordnuqgen zum AnTeiZ und zur FöTdeTUng der ErdAlsuche in Australien und seinen zugehörigen Gebieten. ITerfasser erwd hn, t ferner die Gebiete, in denen augenblicklich Erdblforschungen vorgen ommen werden. Fünf Gebiete sind besonders zu erwiihnon: das great Artesian Becken, das Sydnev Recken, das Gippsland Recken, das Wuuten Recken, und da, s Norwest-Recken. Er stellt in Kiirze daT u:as, S man aicgenblicklich ilber die geologischen Verhältnisse dieser Gebiete Weiss, Das Vorkommen von Erdöl ist durch Rohrungen irn Gippsland-Becken festgestallt worden. Schliesslich folgen -einige kune Bemerkungen ilber die neuesten Fortschritte, die in Papua und auf Neu Guinea erzielt w
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...ROCK SCANS The Search for Rock Testing Tools That Are Better Than a Drill Bit Stephen Rassenfoss, JPT Emerging Technolog...
Rock Scans Whiting Petroleum has made an extraordinary commitment to rock testing. In its office tower in downtown Denver, its digital rock imaging laboratory analyzes about 6,000 ft of core samples each year, examining details down to pores only a few nanometers across. When evaluating new plays, or considering alternative plans for its proven fields, the independent oil company uses a battery of imaging devices. The common question faced is: “Is it going to work?” said Lyn Canter, a senior geoscience adviser who manages the laboratory at Whiting. She has been asked the same question by other companies considering whether there is a return for investing in in-house rock imaging. Her answer is: “We think it gives us a competitive edge” by providing timely answers to questions raised by complex tight oil formations, many in the Niobrara and the Bakken, that cannot be answered using routine core testing methods. One example of its value was that Whiting decided not to go forward with a costly proposed field development project after rock tests indicated it was not permeable enough to support profitable production, Canter said. While she said the equipment has paid for itself at Whiting, it represents an unusual level of support, which would be difficult for others to replicate. Service companies see growing interest in digital rock testing, but few companies regularly use digital imaging as a reservoir analysis tool, and only a couple of majors in the United States have their own in-house equipment, Canter said. Generating credible results likely to influence decision makers has required a significant, long-term commitment of equipment, skilled personnel, and the time needed to develop the workflows for generating results that exploration teams will use. This requires selecting representative samples, as small as a grain of sand, to image the pore-scale details from complex rocks with features that are consistently inconsistent. The tools and processes needed to turn observations of the rock microstructure into measurements is an emerging technology. As a result, engineers are the ones asking the toughest questions about the results, she said. “We want engineering to buy in to what we are doing,” Canter said, adding, “They are naturally skeptical, but can be convinced by making a good case that the results offer a view of the average properties of the larger reservoir.”
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- Geophysics > Seismic Surveying > Borehole Seismic Surveying (0.34)
- North America > United States > Texas > Permian Basin > Yeso Formation (0.99)
- North America > United States > Texas > Permian Basin > Yates Formation (0.99)
- North America > United States > Texas > Permian Basin > Wolfcamp Formation (0.99)
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4. Applications of Radioactivity in Petroleum Technology
Fries, B. A. (California Research Corporattion, Richmond and La Harba, California) | Hull, D. E. (California Research Corporattion, Richmond and La Harba, California) | Jones, S. B. (California Research Corporattion, Richmond and La Harba, California)
...oactivity are quickly seized and samples, and id) surveys of the earth's put to work in the intense search for new oil surface for oil fields. fields. The drilling operation is followed by the nuclear loggi...
Measurements, tracers, and instruments employing the phenomenon of radioactivity haoe been adopted widely throughout the whole field of petroleum technology. In exploration for new Oil fields, radioactivity surveys are now correlated with geological surveys. After a hole is drilled, the rock strata tions. Ru.diotracers are used in laboratory research techniques for such widely varied investigations ical as oil recovery from porous rock, the mechanism of chem reactions, and the lubricating quality of marketed products. Chemica.1 analysis of process streams with radiation sources has become routine. Continuous motoring of plant streams and processes for automatic control now looms as a major development of the near future. Introduction he applied equally well in petroleuni processes. Throughout, an effort has been made to evaluate The petroleum industry has led all others in critically radioactive techniques in comparison the application of radioactivity to its technological with others having the same function, and to problems. Uranium ores and radium were point out the most promising directions for put to work when onl57 natural radioactivity was future exploitation of radioactivity in petroleum known. The cyclotron added several artificial technology. Since the advent of the nuclear chain reaction, Applications of Radioactivity a wide variety of reactor-produced isotopes, first in Exploration Work available to industry a scant decade ago, has been put to use in every phase of petroleum technology, Radioactivity has been of significance in from exploration to marketing. It Research into the very origin of petroleumis has been of importance in (a) studies of the aided by radioactive techniques, includjng the nature of the processes by which petroleum is age-dating of oil precursors and of oil-bearing formed, (b) determinations of the geological rocks. New and improved instruments for ages of sedimentary rocks, (c) analysis of geological detecting radioactivity are quickly seized and samples, and id) surveys of the earth's put to work in the intense search for new oil surface for oil fields. The drilling operation is followed by the nuclear logging of the bore hole. Most vital of A. Oriqin or Petroleum the radioisotope's contribution to production is the study of oil recovery from porous rock. 1. Formation of Petroleum During 1)eposition Through all phases of transportation and refining, of Sediments. Radioactive sources are incorporated or scveral agents.
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- North America > United States > Missouri (0.46)
- North America > United States > California > Los Angeles County (0.28)
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...nce World War 11. Even if unit discovery remains constant, the industry's investment devoted to the search for oil and natural gas must grow somewhat faster than market demand to assure full market satisfac...as than the market required. After the mid-19501s, however, the industry's ability to invest in the search for petroleum was severely curtailed by governmental regulation. The imposition of price controls o...
...ply as a proportion of production revenue. And, over the 15 year period, the real investment in the search for oil and gas declined at an annual rate of 4.1 percent while demand continued to grow at a rate ...t increase revealed in the table demonstrates conclusively that the industry will indeed expand its search for more petroleum if it is allowed to generate the necessary investment funds. The impact of price...
...prices in line with inflation and rising costs and thereby earned enough to finance a more adequate search for petroleum. Ironically, while the decline in profitability has been in progress, the general pub...
ABSTRACT To a major degree the energy problems of the United States reflect a widespread lack of understanding of how the nation's economic system functions. Only a small proportion of all high school and college students ever take courses of study that explain adequately the mechanics of the system. Indeed, there is even substantial evidence that many educators do not understand it. It follows, therefore, that neither the general public nor government is well prepared to comprehend the financial realities of an adequate energy supply. It is not recognized that the supply of energy, in any form, is determined by the long term investment to provide that supply. It is not understood that an inadequate investment relative to expanding market needs surely will lead to an eventual shortage. Nor is it realized that this economic principle applies whether the investment is made by a private industry or by a government. Proof of the consequences of underinvestment is provided by the experience of the petroleum industry in the United States since World War II. Even if unit discovery remains constant, the industry's investment devoted to the search for oil and natural gas must grow somewhat faster than market demand to assure full market satisfaction and also maintain a realistic, safe reserve-to-production ratio. But, if these costs are rising, investment must then grow still faster than demand. And, if inflation prevails simultaneously, investment must grow even faster. Since World War II discovery costs have risen and inflation has prevailed. Therefore, it was essential that investment grow much faster than demand. And, for the first decade following the war, the industry was able to meet that standard. With the removal of war-time price controls in mid-1946, prices in general began to rise and the composite price of oil and natural gas doubled in the following decade. The increase led to a larger generation of investment funds and the petroleum industry responded by more than tripling its annual investment. During the 10 year period, investment grew nearly twice as fast as demand. And, as a consequence, the industry was able to discover 50 percent more oil and gas than the market required. After the mid-1950's, however, the industry's ability to invest in the search for petroleum was severely curtailed by governmental regulation. The imposition of price controls on natural gas not only held the price of gas at an absurdly low level but actually controlled indirectly l the price of oil as well because fuel oils had to be priced competitively with gas in the market. These restraints prevented any further increase in the composite price of oil and gas for the next 15 years. Indeed, after adjusting for inflation the real price actually declined by 30 percent. Although the production of oil and gas increased by 3.5 percent a year during this period, the annual growth of production revenue was limited to only 1.5 percent by the decline of real prices.
... MCF range would most certainly greatly trillion and what initially appeared to be accelerate the search for gas. We should also simply a couple of poor discovery years began remember that the cost of gas...
...roviding considerable amounts of capita 1 to price of natural gas since the middle 50's help in the search. That capital must be recovered by directly setting the wellhead price that through hiCie sed p...of tax to provide he wants from the storekeeper at low prices, capital for continuing the high risk search. and has left the store satisfied. What is not The policy was a wise one and as a result generally...s. the industry re-invested only 33% of its In the past, the federa 1 government has income in the search for and development of exercised influence on the supply and price new reserves. It doesn't take a ...
...4 "ENERGY AND THE U. S. ECONOMY" SPE 367 I prices were increased and at the current search for new reserves. Direct exploratory price, crude is selling for less than 12 percent costs for eve... year that we re-invested application for higher wellhead prices, but only 33% of our income in the search for demand predicts bly continued to increase new reserves, the depletion allowance was and by 1968...ers who incentives and capita 1 to re-inve st in the would in turn dedicate any gas found to their search. Because of this and other reasons, pipeline. Even with these additional drilling reached a twenty...
American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc. This paper was prepared for the Anadarko Basin/Oklahoma City Joint Meeting of the Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME, to be held in Oklahoma City, Okla., Nov. 18–19, 1971. Permission to copy is restricted to an abstract of not more than 300 words. Illustrations may not be copied. The abstract should contain conspicuous acknowledgment of where and by whom the paper is presented. Publication elsewhere after publication in the JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY or the SOCIETY OF publication in the JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY or the SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERS JOURNAL is usually granted upon request to the Editor PETROLEUM ENGINEERS JOURNAL is usually granted upon request to the Editor of the appropriate journal provided agreement to give proper credit is made. Discussion of this paper is invited. Three copies of any discussion should be sent to the Society of Petroleum Engineers office. Such discussion may be presented at the above meeting and, with the paper, may be considered for publication in one of the two SPE magazines. We've heard a great deal lately about the energy gap and the forthcoming energy crisis. Such a crisis is simply inconceivable to most of us who have lived all our lives with abundant supplies of cheap energy, but time has a way of rendering many established concepts obsolete. Imagine what our reaction would have been had the President of the United States said in 1956, one year prior to Sputnik, "We are going to place a man on the moon in the next decade." We would hurriedly have checked the Vice President's health. Yet in 1960, only three years after Sputnik, our President made such a statement and although President made such a statement and although it was received skeptically at the time, it was in fact fulfilled within the decade. How could we possibly have an energy crisis? A few days ago I saw regular gasoline being advertised at 24.9 cents at a local station and remembered that I had paid more for it twenty five years ago. If we're short of oil, why doesn't gasoline cost more?, -bottled drinking water in New York City is considerably more expensive. I read recently that the Potential Gas Committee says we have well over 11 hundred trillion cubic feet of potential gas reserves in this country, we only use 22 trillion a year,-so how could we possibly have a shortage of natural gas? If we are supposedly short of crude, why did the state of Texas reduce its daily allowable this fall apparently allowing its wells to produce only 64% of the time. These are all logical questions and they are asked frequently by consumers of natural gas and oil. The sad fact is that we do have an energy gap and we are approaching an energy crisis of major proportions. It's perhaps the most serious crisis that this nation has yet faced. Can we solve it?, - I think we can and I plan to outline for you a few of the steps that this nation must take to protect and insure adequate energy for its future. One of the most difficult parts of this solution will not be concerned with the technical or political problems but rather with the communications problem, -the elimination of the credibility gap. In order to come up with reasonable solutions, let's look first at the problem. It would appear that the energy gap we are facing in the United States is the direct result of having no national energy policy. The problem has been aggravated by sex and by affluence. The part that sex plays of course, has to do with the population growth. Fifty years ago there were 100 million people in this country. Now there are over 200 million. By 1980, and reproduction is expected to boost us to over 240 million. Where does affluence come in? In 1950, each of our inhabitants used an amount of energy equal to 39 barrels of oil per year. per year.
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...nited States as well as some of the technical problems of drilling for and producing this oil. PAST SEARCH FOR PETROLEUM If we review the history of the ...search for petroleum, we find that early explorers soon recognized that oil and gas often occurred in anti... Once this relationship was established practically the whole exploration effort was devoted to the search for anticlines, first by surface geology using plane table mapping and other techniques, followed b...
...Thus from these significant bits of information, one could conclude that the search for the giant fields of the future should be focused on basins containing thick accumulations of ma...
...technology to map stratigraphic traps with a combination of seismic and geologic methods, a renewed search is going on in many parts of the country for these subtle traps which were overlooked in the days ...when the industry focused nearly all of its attention on the search for anticlines. Hence, you can see that in spite of the fact that over 2.7 million wells have been...
N Ladies and Gentlemen: I plan to discuss today the most likely places where oil will be discovered in the future in the United States as well as some of the technical problems of drilling for and producing this oil. M If we review the history of the search for petroleum, we find that early explorers soon recognized that oil and gas often occurred in anticlinal structures. Differential buoyancy caused the lighter gas to accumulate in the attic of the structure above the oil which in turn was on the top of the ever-present water found in all formations at depth. Once this relationship was established practically the whole exploration effort was devoted to the search for anticlines, first by surface geology using plane table mapping and other techniques, followed by the extremely successful seismic method initiated in the late 20's. Seismic mapping proved so effective in locating subsurface anticlines that discoveries accelerated at an unprecedented rate which, combined with the great depression of the 1930ts, caused the price of oil to drop to as low as 10 cents per barrel. In the process of searching for anticlines, or in some cases purely by random drilling some large non-anticlinal fields or stratigraphic traps were found. Many in the industry realized that large accumulations of stratigraphic trap oil likely existed, but at that time it was not commercially feasible to search for it by a combination of subsurface geology and drilling numerous wells to define the possible trap, except in the case of very shallow prospects. SLIDE 1: GIANT FIELDS CONTAIN MOST OF WORLD'S OIL This slide shows that over 85% of all of the oil found in the past, about 1 trillion barrels, was found in fewer than 300 giant oil fields which comprise less than 1% of the more than 30,000 oil fields in the world. SLIDE 2: MESOZOIC-TERTIARY SEDIMENTS HOLD MOST OF WORLD'S OIL Another very significant fact is that worldwide over 85% of all of the oil found in the past has been found in sediments of mesozoic and lower Cenozoic or Tertiary age. Older sediments generated, but lost in countless, subsequent geologic revolutions, vast amounts of oil and gas. Younger sediments of the late Cenozoic contain the essential organic material to form petroleum, but these sediments have not reached maturity for petroleum generation. Aside from the above two points, a third significant factor in oil exploration is that the first company to explore an area has generally found the giant fields. Thus from these significant bits of information, one could conclude that the search for the giant fields of the future should be focused on basins containing thick accumulations of marine Mesozoic and Tertiary sediments which have not been thoroughly explored. Such areas in the U.S. include most of our offshore areas, the Rocky Mountain overthrust belt, and the deep Tuscaloosa-Woodbine trend of the Gulf Coast where a great deal of exploratory activity is concentrated.
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- North America > United States > Utah > Pineview Field (0.99)
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...azilian Oil and Gas National Agency is linked to the geology and geophysics services applied to the search of Ministry of Mines and Energy and its activities and legal petroleum, in a non exclusive bases; (... gasoline, choices of specifications considering the "bottom of of the law should always prevail in search of a regulatory the barrel" aspects etc.). It also acted in the formulation of the landmark to the ...
...sent to ANP to be technically analyzed by its Superintendence d) Effectiveness in the activities of search of continuous staff, will be substituted by the simple analysis of certificates improvement, motiva...
...ination. Inserted in the (1953 -1958); economical nationalism context of the 2 nd Vargas 2. The search for the govern, the company would have the mission of (12) downstream self - sufficiency developing...eginning of a (16) 1997) phase (1975 - 1986) conglomeration movement (expansion to the (17) 3a. The search for the self - petrochemical activities) and the internationalization sufficiency of the commodity ...of the activities occurred. The search of the oil self - petroleum phase (starting sufficiency was left in a second plan, mainly in from 1...
Abstract Firstly, some of the principal challenges for ANP-the Brazilian Regulatory Agency for the petroleum industrial segment - are presented:the diversity and the great number of Plants / Facilities and Economical Agents; the peculiar context after a monopolistic scenario, in evolution to a liberal one, regulated in a efficient way by the Brazilian Government. Secondly, the bases, the guidelines and the expected results of a Conformity Assessment Program are showed; in a simply overview, the program consider that Authorized Entities by the National Accreditation Organism - INMETRO - would evaluate the expected performance of the petroleum "Players", according to international rules and to specific Regulations. Finally, it is presented a Planning for development and implantation of the Program, including its stages, in an outlined 5W + 2H method (WHAT - WHY - WHO - WHERE - WHEN - HOW and HOW MUCH). Summary Objective Regulation Context Definition of the Conformity Assessment Program Program Development Conclusions / Expected Results References 1. Objective The objective of this paper is to present the principal contours of a powerful tool to be used for Technical Regulation of the Brazilian Oil and Gas Industry and also to present the steps of the planning for this tool development itself. 2. Regulation Context 2.1 - Political - economical scenery of the Regulation The history of the Brazilian oil and gas industry is quite fascinating, just as it has happened for the rest of the world during the last 150 years. The evolution of the control, the ownership and the use of the Black Gold have described paths very similar to others countries with the same political and economical drawing, especially for those located in Latin America. However, in general lines, it can be recognized in Brazil four different decisive periods, considering the focus on the Regulation of the oil and gas industry activities: Free initiative, Indirect Control by a state department (CNP- Petroleum National Council), Monopolist control by the state enterprise PETROBRAS and Monopoly of the Union. The Table 1 presents the principal characteristics of each period. In briefly, the first three periods have demonstrated an attempt for consolidation of the petroleum segment in Brazil. Originally assuming a private character, the degree of institutional interference of the State, in the dynamics of this industry, was progressively enlarged. This occurred in function of the low levels of investments and the little useful discoveries. This process has culminated with the creation of PETROBRAS, the Brazilian state oil and gas company. PETROBRAS became the responsible for the exclusive accomplishment of the exploration, development and production activities, import, export and processing of oil and natural gas, besides exercising an important portion of the distribution market and commercialization of oil products.
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Management In November, the SPE Oil and Gas Reserves Committee (OGRC) published Guidelines for the Application of the Petroleum Resources Management System (PRMS). The guidelines, available at http://www.spe.org/industry/docs/PRMS_Guidelines_Nov2011.pdf, provide information and examples on the use of PRMS in the classification of oil and gas reserves and resources. The new guidelines replace the 2001 Guidelines for the Evaluation of Petroleum Reserves and Resources. New chapters include “Estimation of Petroleum Resources Using Deterministic Procedures” and “Unconventional Resources.” Other chapters were updated and expanded to reflect current technology and enhanced with examples. The intent of the guidelines is not to provide a comprehensive document that covers all aspects of reserves calculations, but to serve as a useful reference tool for reservoir engineering and reserves evaluation professionals around the world. SPE has been at the forefront in developing common standards for petroleum resource definitions to provide consistency, transparency, and reliability to benefit stakeholders involved in international finance, regulation, and reporting. A milestone in standardization was achieved in 1997 when SPE and the World Petroleum Council (WPC) approved the “Petroleum Reserves Definitions.” Since then, SPE has continuously updated the definitions. In 2007, SPE, WPC, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), and the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers (SPEE) approved the Petroleum Resources Management System, globally known as PRMS. The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) subsequently endorsed PRMS. PRMS has been acknowledged as the oil and gas industry standard for reference and was used by the US Securities and Exchange Commission as a guide for its updated rules, “Modernization of Oil and Gas Reporting,” published in 2008. SPE recognized that new applications guidelines were required for the PRMS. The SPE Oil and Gas Reserves Committee formed an Applications Guidelines Document Subcommittee in April 2007 to undertake this task. I was honored to be asked to chair the subcommittee. The original 2001 guidelines document was the starting point for this work. The goal was to have an inclusive process where the industry was involved and all stakeholder input was considered fairly by experts.