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  • Floating offshore wind: what challenges?

    Floating offshore wind: what challenges?

    A dozen challenges for floating offshore wind projects are ranked in this 4-page note, by reviewing 50 recent patents across the industry. We model these challenges are likely to double capex and levelized costs, compared with traditional offshore wind. The potential for floating offshore wind is also location dependent.

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  • Fully subsea offshore projects: the economics?

    Fully subsea offshore projects: the economics?

    The model presents the economic impacts of developing a typical, 625Mboe offshoreย  gas condensate field using a fully subsea solution, compared against installing a new production facility. The result is a c4% uplift in IRRs, a 50% uplift in NPV6 and a 33% reduction in the project’s gas-breakeven price. The economics are attractive.

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  • European gas and power model: natural gas supply-demand?

    European gas and power model: natural gas supply-demand?

    European gas and power markets will look better-supplied than they truly are in 2023-24. A dozen key input variables can be stress-tested in the data-file. Overall, we think Europe will need to source over 15bcfd of LNG through 2030, especially US LNG.

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  • Renewables: share of global energy and electricity by country?

    Renewables: share of global energy and electricity by country?

    This data-file is an Excel “visualizer” for some of the key headline metrics in global energy: such as total global energy use, electricity generation by source and growing renewables penetration; broken down country-by-country, and showing how these metrics have changed over time.

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  • Hybrid horizons: industrial use of batteries?

    Hybrid horizons: industrial use of batteries?

    Gas and diesel engines can be 30-80% less efficient when idling, or running at low loads. This is the rationale for hybridizing engines with backup batteries. Industrial applications are increasing, achieving 30-65% efficiency gains, across multiple industries. In 2018-19, the biggest new horizon has been in oil and gas, including hybrid rigs, supply vessels, construction…

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  • CO2 intensity of natural gas value chains?

    CO2 intensity of natural gas value chains?

    We have constructed a simple model to estimate full-cycle CO2 emissions of a gas resource, as a function of its production efficiency, contaminants (CO2 and H2S), and commercialisation (LNG or pipelines) . Compared with the life-cycle emissions of oil, CO2 per boe is seen to be c0-20% lower for LNG and c50-75% lower for piped…

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  • Johan Sverdrup: Don’t Decline

    Johan Sverdrup: Don’t Decline

    Equinor is deploying three world-class technologies to mitigate Johan Sverdrupโ€™s decline rates, based on reviewing c115 of the companyโ€™s patents and dozens of technical papers. This 15-page note outlines how its efforts may unlock an incremental $3-5bn of value from the field, as production surprises to the upside.

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  • Johan Sverdrup: Economic Model

    Johan Sverdrup: Economic Model

    We have modelled the economics of Equinor’s Johan Sverdrup oilfield. Our model spans >250 lines of inputs and outputs, so you can flex key assumptions. In particular, we have tested the impact of different decline rates and recovery factors on the field’s ultimate value.

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  • Offshore Capex for Technology Leaders?

    Offshore Capex for Technology Leaders?

    The lowest-cost offshore projects are not “easy oil”. They are the ones being developed with leading technologies. This data-file measures a -88% correlation coefficient between different Major’s offshore patent filings in 2018 and their most recent projects’ capex costs.

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  • Inflow Control: Our Top 20 Papers from 2019

    Inflow Control: Our Top 20 Papers from 2019

    This data-file summarises twenty recent papers using inflow control devices: an exciting digital technology to optimise horizontal wells by limiting production from zones that are susceptible to flowing water or gas. Each paper is categorized by company, country, field and focus. Also included are our ‘Top 10’ facts from the technical literature.ย 

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