RE: OMG........ 5% Sulphur content23 Nov 2019 08:43
Canadian heavy oil has a sulphur content of 4-7%, how many barrels of oil do they produce? Gkp oil production has an API of 11 at the bottom of the Jurassic, currently producing 40k bopd with plan for 110k bopd. Shaiken crude is blended with lighter oils, is there any light oil around Jethro? Only a few billion. In fact given US refinery set up and the saturation of US light oil shale production in recent years, Exxon may well want some heavy blended to their light oil discoveries to meet the demand of these refineries. With the new 2020 laws even oil with a sulphur content of 0.4, which would give a bunker fuel content of 0.8/1.3% will need to be treated to hit the 0.5 cap, this can be done at or pre refinery but virtually all companies are going to have to deal with this - technology will move quickly. Joe stand alone is not commercial and would not be developed, Jethro is and given the volumes will be commercial, more so if there are additional light oil discoveries that it can be blended with.