the challenges are still huge. There are many pieces, which have to fall into place. How do we progress? As mentioned, there are several active exploration licenses, and hopefully there will be a basis [...] we can arrive at out chosen destination. Over these eight years, there has been much activity – and there still is. Eleven licenses are still active and hopefully some more will be awarded towards the [...] interpreted. For many it may seem that there is not much activity, but we must not forget that a drilling is just the end result of an exhaustive preliminary work project. The license holders are doing a huge
recoverable over a 24-year period. Depending on how Phase-1 works out, further development is possible, with a recoverables target of 400mmb, though there is informal talk of more than 500mmb. Clair development [...] bpd of oil and 15 million cu.ft of gas. Ramping up oil production will be a gradual process as wells are progressively drilled using the platform?s own drilling package. One is being pre-drilled and will [...] west of Shetland. Platform fabrication is in the hands of Aker Kværner (jacket) and Amec (topsides). Many small suppliers and sub-contractors also have work and, overall, construction is comfortably past
I went to pay, the cashier started to talk to me, asking how I was doing. I had never seen this person before and stammered something about how I was tired, to which she replied that I should try some [...] different countries, myself having caught a virus, in 30 degrees Celsius, wearing three shirts to many, I did not have the sweet feeling of adventure I had expected. However, I was happy to be done traveling [...] their trucks, politics, anything, and everything. As the days went by, I got to experience just how different we were. Issues I felt strongly about could be overlooked or misunderstood, sometimes, I
pragmatism prevails and other, easier pickings are pursued, perhaps in the North Sea itself. Offshore Ireland is in many ways comparable to the Faroes. There, the same old miserably slow trudge drags on [...] seems more realistic. The field lies 70km offshore; its reserves are some 25 billion cu.m of gas. As for the Irish exploration effort, there are conflicting reports about the Dooish discovery. Is it potentially [...] greatest successes are currently being scored in the NW African state of Mauritania while, on the west side, the Canadian quest plods along unspectacularly, but is delivering modest results. There is no doubt
