OGPSS - Saudi Arabia - production from Safaniya

In recent posts I have been looking at the potential for the historically high producing Saudi oilfields at Abqaiq , Berri and Ghawar to i...

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...

OGPSS - The production from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - part 1

The United States Government has just asked the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to raise the levels of its oil production this summer. Oil pr...

Reserves and production - a simple example

So far in this series of technical talks I have tried to explain some of the pieces that have to be put together to get crude oil or natural...

Water Floods and improving oil flow

I am going to insert a topic here before going on to Carbonates, as I had mentioned doing in the last post, because it will help to explain ...