Falkland Islands Exploration Well

[@petrophysicsrocks]

😍Thanks for all your support! Have you ever been involved in remote field operations or integrated image log and quantitative petrophysical evaluation methods? (I apologise that the sound quality on this presentation isn’t quite up to the usual standard)

[@RedentSC]

your knowledge in this subject is extremely interesting. glad to be part of a new channel 😁 while the oil may not be fluid enough for easy exploration, would the gas (presuming there is some there along with the oil) be suitable for LNG or would this even be suitable?

[@petrophysicsrocks]

Thanks for the comment @RedentSC - the interactions really help the KZbin algorithm - apparently! Now I have to admit to not being an expert in what makes a good LNG source gas, but yes there is plenty of gas as well as oil in the Falklands basin (a useful source of fuel to operate the oil production facilities?). I know that Shell (for one) were looking at running a few floating LNG processing plants around the globe to mop up small offshore gas accumulations - that wouldn’t justify a full onshore processing facility. So I assume that’s the sort of thing you’re getting at for these remote operations? However, I would say that the Falklands is so remote that, whether you’re offshore tanker loading for Oil or LNG, I would have thought it would be similarly challenging from a marketing perspective (again though, I can’t pretend to be up to speed with the economic modelling side of things). I should also say that although I mentioned the fluids were a bit tricky (waxy - a common feature of lacustrine source rock) - the oil flows well enough down hole and through most of the sub-surface pipework - it’s not really until the fluids get to the surface processing facilities that you’d probably have to look at some additional heating. Certainly when we looked at the “Flow Assurance” studies…there were no real “show stoppers” as we would say. There’s probably over 1 billion barrels of oil in place in the Sea Lion area - it was/is a tantalising prize…..it’s obviously also in a very environmentally sensitive area - as an Engineer, it’s the sort of thing you want to work on!