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February 5, 2012 at 8:43 pm #7133

Palmtok

BP has declared IOC the last frontier for O&G exploration and mentions the large finds there. IOC mentioned for E/A but also T2 potential:
“Source: 
The National, Monday 06th Febuary 2012
PAPUA New Guinea has been dubbed one of the last frontiers of energy exploration with only 8,000km of seismic areas acquired throughout the country in the past 50 years.
A Wall Street Journal report last week stated though this was not a lot, there had so far been some great discoveries from Oil Search Ltd, InterOil and Talisman.
It reported a BP study of PNG showing that the country had 15.6 trillion cubic feet of proven reserves of natural gas at the end of 2010.
“That figure likely underestimates the true resource as PNG has been lightly explored up to now.
“It is hardly a surprise that there is increasing interest in PNG exploration,” it reported.
The Journal reported that since PNG seemed generally rich in prospects and so few have been drilled yet, big licence holders such as ExxonMobil and Oil Search Ltd seem to have good prospects here.
Oil Search, as a large corporation with activities in Iraq, Tunisia and Yemen, had been producing oil and gas from its Highlands fields of Kutubu, Moran, Gobe, Hides and SE Mananda since 1929.
They are presently constructing an LNG facility in which they have a 29% stake in the project, with Exxon (33.2%), PNG government (16.8%), Santos (13.5%), Nippon Oil (4.7%) and PNG landholders (2.8%).
The project had already been sold out, but Oil Search was on the hunt for the gas resources to underpin a possible third train.
On many of their licences, ExxonMobil either has a stake and/or was the operator, and even where it was not, they benefited from finds in that they were the biggest stakeholder in the PNG LNG venture.
Another player, Talisman, though having small holdings in exploration areas, had been in the country since 2001.
Their interest in onshore exploration was much more recent, which led to the purchase of Rift Oil in Augustus 2009 for US$177 million and Talisman accumulating an interest in 12 licences covering an area of more than 15 million acres.
One of Talisman’s licences included a 50% holding, (Eaglewood 40% and Fortune International 10%) on the Ubuntu-1 well, which drilled a condensate rich gas discovery.
InterOil has a large exploration opportunity that deserves attention, apart from its Elk/Antelope gas and condensate field.
It now had plans for reef explorations, where should any play out, would provide something of a bonanza, as a reef was what makes the Antelope wells so productive, and so far, InterOil was the only one discovering reefs on PNG.
The well in Bwata/Triceratops, that was recently spudded, might well give a first shot as when drilled by a former license holder in 1959, contained gas.
PNG also has a number of smaller and micro cap explorers, which sometimes have surprisingly large licence acreages such as Horizon, New Guinea Energy, Kina Petroleum and LNG Energy.”
http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/28702

February 5, 2012 at 8:50 pm #7134

Tree

….should any play out…..

British humor.

February 5, 2012 at 8:52 pm #7135

Palmtok

Note comment- “Interoil only company finding reefs”. Hohoho

February 5, 2012 at 9:36 pm #7136

admin

["BP has declared IOC the last frontier for O&G exploration"]
["“Interoil only company finding reefs”.]
Damn! I should have copyrighted that stuff..
http://seekingalpha.com/article/320685-papua-new-guinea-a-last-frontier-of-energy-exploration

February 5, 2012 at 10:21 pm #7137

Palmtok

Ha! I remember that article stp but it’s clear they picked you clean. You are now the king of uber-pumper! It’s obviously all lies now that we know the source.

February 5, 2012 at 10:40 pm #7138

admin

Yea, some of the wording was vaguely familiar to me :)

In fact, as Pet pointed out, there is another reef (off-shore, I think), so IOC isn’t the only one. I think he mentioned another one too. But IOC does have 12 leads as possible reefs, if only a couple of these pan out, well.. Especially the one we’re drilling out, considering what we hear about its possible size..

February 6, 2012 at 6:26 am #7144

jft310

IOC doesn’t know the dimensions of this T-2 monster. It’s to big…Dave Holland states 2-4 times E/A he hopes and thinks but doesn’t know.Lets confirm a reef first huh.Maybe two weeks for that ???

February 6, 2012 at 7:00 am #7145

Spartina

Let’s have a little fun… Let’s say Triceratops IS 4 times the size of E/A. Someone mentioned that the revenue from E/A over a 20 year span would be around 100 billion dollars (I understand that ‘s not all IOC”s) If you then add the 2 together that would be a half a TRILLION DOLLARS. Can you imagine what that would do to the share price? To the Leverage that would give IOC for making deals?? What it would do to the shorts??? What it would imply for the rest of the rolodex?? This could be life changing/ history changing….And it IS very very possible.

February 6, 2012 at 7:57 am #7149

jft310

Dave Holland found E/A and he has stated his opinion not confirmed with the drill bit in emails.The 236 area is even bigger he thinks then T-2 ,thus you can see why IOC can sell down E/A so far to get the cash to drill em all.Interesting that the new drill rig is close to being ready.They plan to drill deeper at Antelope.Where is that darn oil thingie..

February 6, 2012 at 11:24 am #7162

petrengr1

For those of you who want to know more about reefs that have been discovered in PNG I invite you to read or re-read
http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29/Stocks_I/threadview?m=tm&bn=26290&tid=286029&mid=286029&tof=-1&rt=1&frt=2&off=1 both Part I and Part II.

February 6, 2012 at 11:49 am #7165

admin

["The Pasca Reef had several wells drilled. A-1, A-2, A-3, C-1 and C-2. The Pasca is (or was) a retrograde condensate reservoir like Antelope but a couple of thousand feet deeper. The A-3 well blew out for 4 months before bridging itself off. It is unknown if an underground blowout continued so we do not know how much gas is left there and it could be hazardous to drill in the area due to overpressured zones above the reef due to the blowout. The Pasca Field had an original reservoir pressure of 4,500 psi at about 7,000 feet and a dew point pressure of 3,240 psi. Present pressure is unknown due to the blowout."]

Pet, that Pasca Reef, was that on what is now IOC license area. Who blew that up?

Here are some of these reefs

February 6, 2012 at 12:24 pm #7171

petrengr1

STP- “Who blew that up?” I really hate the way you put that. Sounds like a terrorist attack. Of course “blowouts” are always accidental.

No, Pasca is not on any of IOC’s license areas. Pasca is offshore. IOC does not have any offshore areas except a little along the edge of PPL 236.

I think Pasca A-3 blew out while being drilled by Australian Superior Oil Company Ltd. http://books.google.com/books?id=QPImAQAAIAAJ&q=Pasca+Reef+blowout&dq=Pasca+Reef+blowout&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SggwT-WXOsGs2gW29Jz_Cg&sqi=2&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAw

February 6, 2012 at 1:24 pm #7172

jft310

The Pale/Sabu Sandstones are deeper and thats one reason IOC bought the new rig because it can drill deeper. In the past its been said IOC hopes the oil is in the sandstones and that required drilling deeper.I find it fascinating they are sending the new rid to Antelope 3 to drill deeper.One never knows till its been drilled.

February 6, 2012 at 2:35 pm #7175

admin

Sorry Pet, certainly didn’t want to suggest they did it on purpose! They must be kicking themselves though, I don’t know how big that field was, but with a reef present, even a modestly sized fields would mean billions if big enough for a single train LNG (if LNG was actually around already in those days, I don’t think so, as it happens). From the map I provided I couldn’t make out whether it was off-shore or on shore, but perhaps I need glasses.

February 6, 2012 at 8:37 pm #7196

Tusker

Congrats Admin – saw your story line right away.

Salutations

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