Flaring and the Siberian temperature profiles

After I had drafted the following post I initially put it on the shelf, since the idea that the gas flares would have an impact over such a ...

OGPSS - Improving horizontal well flow in Berri and Ghawar

The very size of the reservoirs of oil in Saudi Arabia means that, as the dominant method of water flooding is used to sweep oil to the prod...

OGPSS - Enhancing production at Berri

In the last post I discussed how changing technologies were improving the recovery of the final significant volumes of oil from Abqaiq. Ne...

OGPSS - The change in well design at Abqaiq

Current figures suggest that world liquid fuels production is running at around 90 mbd, of which roughly 74 mbd is crude. A reasonable estim...

OGPSS - Production from Abqaiq, an Ageing Queen

The topic of rising gas prices is pervasive, and at a breakfast meeting last Monday Richard Williams, a friend commented that he had seen so...