Johan Sverdrup: Don’t Decline?
Equinor is deploying three world-class technologies to mitigate Johan Sverdrup’s decline rates, based on reviewing c115 of the company’s patents and dozens of technical papers. Our new 15-page note outlines…
Permian Pipeline Bottlenecks?
…bottlenecks. Our assessment is that the Permian’s oil bottleneck is currently moderate, while the gas bottleneck is severe. Both will see new pipeline additions. Oil bottlenecks are thereby relieved, while…
US Shale Gas to Liquids?
We have reviewed 40 of Shell’s GTL patent filings for 2018. They show continued progress, innovating new fuels, lubricants, renewable-heavy gasolines, waxes and detergents. Each patent is summarised and categorized…
2050 oil markets: opportunities in peak demand?
…the current trends, global oil demand is on course to keep rising to over 130Mbpd by 2050, undermining attempts to decarbonise the world’s energy system. Our new, 20-page note reviews…
Drone Attacks on Energy Assets?
…the past ten years. For example, in the chart below, we have counted 100 violent attacks on energy infrastructure from major news stories. However, the majority were small-scale and located…
At the cutting edge of EOR?
…“edge” in EOR technology will make particular Oil Majors more desirable operators and partners, to avoid the higher costs and CO2 intensities of developing new fields to replace them. …
Development Concepts: how much CO2?
…used in their topsides, jackets, hulls, wells, SURF and pipelines. Included are the world’s largest FPSOs, platforms and floating structures; as well as new resources in shale, deepwater-GoM, Guyana, pre-salt…
Upgrading Catalysts: lower refinery temperatures and pressures?
…being pioneered by the different companies. Combining all the best-in-class new catalysts in the datafile, we think the average refinery could save 5kg/bbl of CO2 intensity: across hydrocracking, FCCs, steam…
Screen of companies detecting methane leaks?
…topics in the data-file, for example, on spatial resolution, costs and success rates of some of these different options. Some examples are below. But the main purpose of the file is…
Heliogen: concentrated solar breakthrough?
Heliogen has set a new record for concentrated solar power in November 2019, generating >1,000C temperatures from an array of c370 hexagonal mirrors, which are precisely controlled using computer vision….