'sageo' pid='17099' datel Wrote:Petengr 1-- I can't thank you enough for your help ! When you highlight sites in blue,all I have to do is "point & click".For a dummy like me , this makes it so easy. I guess I was just borned too soon for all this great technology that we have today.Pet, as I try to find all I can on Uramu,Pasca and Pandora going back several years, do you think that with the ever-increasing seismic advances we are hearing about,that the gulf of Paupa might turn out to be a larger "Sunrise" ? (Indonesia / Australia borderline field as I'm sure you are aware of.) According to what I read in one of the artcles,a well several years ago had such pressures that they had to"kill" it to be safe. Is the possibility there or am I "dreaming" too much again ? Maybe the report was just "pulling my chain". TIA
Sageo- I am not familiar with the Sunrise Field but I did a little research and found a couple of articles.
http://www.hydrocarbons-technology.com/projects/sunrise-gas-field/
This field (or fields) is offshore in a few hundred meters of water, 500 km from Australia and 200 km from East Timor. The field was discovered 40 years ago and they are still trying to decide how to develop it. Options considered: 1. Pipe to Australia, 2. Pipe to East Timor, 3. FLNG.
There is an under sea trench that may be up to 13,000 meters deep between the field and East Timor. I don’t think they will be laying a pipeline across that. I think they are leaning toward FLNG using Shells Prelude FLNG after it finishes the first project off East Australia. That ought to delay it about 30 years. And we thought IOC was experiencing delays.
I did not see anything about the abnormal pressure that you mentioned.
Considering the offshore location, water depth, distance to shore, political problems etc. at Sunrise, I believe we already have a better field than Sunrise at Elk/Antelope. If we add Triceratops and all of the un-drilled prospects I think IOC’s future prospects are far better than anything at Greater Sunrise.
Could the Gulf of Paupa be bigger than Sunrise? I think there is a good possibility that it may be. As I have written previously I think the Pandora reef is much larger than has been shown on most maps. So far it is just very dry gas. But, alas, IOC does not have any offshore licenses.