RE: Generator6 Jan 2019 15:22
I hope Alan2017 does not mind me reposting this from Wednesday in answer to the obvious troll.
"So what exactly is “Brockham - Annual Average Offtake” Well lets take a look at other examples of the term “Average Annual”
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/523935/response/1277768/attach/5/brockprodconsred.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1
Annual average daily traffic, abbreviated AADT, is a measure used primarily in transportation planning, transportation engineering and retail location selection. Traditionally, it is the total volume of vehicle traffic of a highway or road for a year divided by 365 days.
Average annual rainfall for a place is generally calculated by averaging the last 30 years of annual rainfall. Annual rainfall is the sum of daily rainfall, that can be calculated from rain gauge records.
So it’s the daily sum added up over the year and then averaged out. Well that makes sense. But you don’t have the exact same number of cars every day?!?! Loooooong sigh.
So all the posters trying to sow seeds of doubt with Angus can only flow 300bopd is rubbish. The OGA would never shackle an oil company with such a low volume.
You do not produce 24/7 during any type of well test. You want to see how the reservoir responds to periods of flow and subsequent periods of the well being shut in. Rather like squeezing a ballon, does it return to its previous shape (reservoir pressure builds up again to before test) or does the ballon retain its new squeezed shape (reservoir pressure declined and cannot reinstate the ballots original form).
The testing schedule as set by the OGA gives a specific timeline for the period for production testing, analysing data and producing the results. This is done so companies just don’t well test for ever, by doing so produce as if they had a licence (UKOG) and circumnavigate protocols. The documentation from the OGA is standard and by stating an overall production limit also acts to encourage the Oil Company to be efficient with the test and to progress it to the next stage in an efficient manner . After all its in the national interest to continually replace depleted wells / fields with new ones. I believe folk would not be as concerned with the Angus production test if the same amount of effort had gone in to researching the UKOG documentation. You will find a lot of similarities with constraints.
So yes Angus can flow more than 300bopd in a single day….otherwise why spend the extra rental money on those super large tanks you see at Brockham?!?! Angus will look to exceed the 1,365bopd flow rates observed from HH KL3 and KL4 2016 test."