RE: OGA plan26 Apr 2019 16:52
OGA reports always confusing - 'spin & wind' come to mind - but nice colours & figures.
WoS Northern Gas Hub Action Plan hangs by thread on needing gas discovery on Lyon Prospect - a high (highly) risk prospective seismic anomaly, in ultra or extreme deep water where development costs are prohibitive and normal reserves reduced due to additional flow assurance issues.
S&W on a number of other concerns over this report:
(1) possible UK CCUS sanctioned post 2023, would mean that 1 CCUS (sink - economic rent negative) project has equivalent expenditure to around 3 major new offshore wind (source - economic rent positive) projects. UK Government already sanctioning new Offshore Wind projects (press release Feb 2019) to reach 154 GW by 2030, increased from 22GW 2018. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/offshore-wind-energy-revolution-to-provide-a-third-of-all-uk-electricity-by-2030
(2) OGA overseen 3.9 Billion BOE 'reserve' additions since 2015 (?): OGA was set up late 2015 to add 3-4 Billion BOE over 20 years [28/1/16] - now claiming 3.9 Billion BOE achieved already in first 5 years! But 8/11/18 OGA reserves & resources report based on 2017 - had 2P decreasing by 0.3 Billion BOE from 2016? In this April 2019 report now claiming 0.9 Billion BOE from 'future exploration' - that's Prospective Resource!, plus 0.9 billion from 'other factors' [unspecified!]?.
Seems only 1.45 billion BOE actually claimed is added by the four original categories back in late 2015 (where some 300-475 new exploration wells were predicted! over 20 years!), plus 0.61 billion BOE from New Project Sanction - majority discovered ie Contingent Resource from before OGA conceived. Since 2015, some 1.7 Billion BOE actually produced (from around 6.3 billion BOE being developed or on-production in late 2015), therefore the 1.45 Billion BOE actually claimed added (which should show up in next OGA Reserves Report Nov 2019?) equates to some 85% - which could sounds reasonable, but, not the 3.9 Billion BOE -- being highly Prospective + Speculative Resources.
Time will tell, but, not easy analysis - clearly I have toooo much free time in my life waiting for AM to be dusted down.
ps shame UK Shale Gas did not bail OGA out - hopefully they will now look to HE to do that in their next 5 year period, their contribution paid for by industry funds yet they are independent(?)