Article from Barchart9 Jan 2019 20:29
Yet despite the price drop in the big picture, energy supply prospects for the future continue to brighten. Reuters reported that BP struck black gold discovering two new oilfields in the Gulf of Mexico that could bring an additional billion barrels of oil at an existing field, thanks to new seismic technology.
Reuters writes “ The company has put a heavy emphasis on technology and data processing capabilities in recent years in order to unlock new resources and cut costs. The $1.3 billion Atlantis Phase 3 development will include drilling eight wells and a new subsea production system that will boost BP’s production by 38,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed). It is scheduled to start production in 2020. Together with the new discoveries, BP aims to grow its Gulf of Mexico production from over 300,000 (boed) at present to 400,000 (boed) by the mid-2020s. BP said that new seismic technology helped it identify an additional 1 billion barrels of oil at its Thunder Horse field within weeks, whereas previously it would have taken a year to analyze”. Remember peak oil and you can’t drill your way to energy independence? Neither do I.