88E (ASX) Some basic oil in place figures

Originally posted by rolling ↑

The risked oil and natural gas in-place estimates are derived by first estimating the volume of in-place resources for a prospective formation within a basin, and then factoring in the formation’s success factor and recovery factor. The success factor represents the probability that a portion of the formation is expected to have attractive oil and natural gas flow rates. The recovery factor takes into consideration the capability of current technology to produce oil and natural gas from formations with similar geophysical characteristics. Foreign shale oil recovery rates are developed by matching a shale formation’s geophysical characteristics to U.S. shale oil analogs. The resulting estimate is referred to as both the risked oil and natural gas in-place and the technically recoverable resource. The specific tasks carried out to implement the assessment include:

Conduct a preliminary review of the basin and select the shale formations to be assessed.

Determine the areal extent of the shale formations within the basin and estimate its overall thickness, in addition to other parameters.

Determine the prospective area deemed likely to be suitable for development based on depth, rock quality, and application of expert judgment.

Estimate the natural gas in-place as a combination of free gas1 and adsorbed gas2 that is contained within the prospective area. Estimate the oil in-place based on pore space oil volumes.

Establish and apply a composite success factor made up of two parts. The first part is a formation success probability factor that takes into account the results from current shale oil and shale gas activity as an indicator of how much is known or unknown about the shale formation. The second part is a prospective area success factor that takes into account a set of factors (e.g., geologic complexity and lack of access) that could limit portions of the prospective area from development.

For shale oil, identify those U.S. shales that best match the geophysical characteristics of the foreign shale oil formation to estimate the oil in-place recovery factor. For shale gas, determine the recovery factor based on geologic complexity, pore size, formation pressure, and clay content, the latter of which determines a formation’s ability to be hydraulically fractured. The gas phase of each formation includes dry natural gas, associated natural gas, or wet natural gas. Therefore, estimates of shale gas resources in this report implicitly include the light wet hydrocarbons that are typically coproduced with natural gas.

Technically recoverable resources4 represent the volumes of oil and natural gas that could be produced with current technology, regardless of oil and natural gas prices and production costs. Technically recoverable resources are determined by multiplying the risked in-place oil or natural gas by a recovery factor.

Based on U.S. shale production experience, the recovery factors used in this supplement as in the previous report for shale gas generally ranged from 20 percent to 30 percent, with values as low as 15 percent and as high as 35 percent being applied in exceptional cases. Because of oil’s viscosity and capillary forces, oil does not flow through rock fractures as easily as natural gas. Consequently, the recovery factors for shale oil are typically lower than they are for shale gas, ranging from 3 percent to 7 percent of the oil in-place with exceptional cases being as high as 10 percent or as low as 1 percent. The consultant selected the recovery factor based on U.S. shale production recovery rates, given a range of factors including mineralogy, geologic complexity, and a number of other factors that affect the response of the geologic formation to the application of best practice shale gas recovery technology. Because most shale oil and shale gas wells are only a few years old, there is still considerable uncertainty as to the expected life of U.S. shale wells and their ultimate recovery. The recovery rates used in this analysis are based on an extrapolation of shale well production over 30 years. Because a shale’s geophysical characteristics vary significantly throughout the formation and analog matching is never exact, a shale formation’s resource potential cannot be fully determined until extensive well production tests are conducted across the formation.

https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/worldshalegas/

https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/worldshalegas/pdf/Argentina_2013.pdf

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Hi

I probably know a bit more about conventional than unconventional and that is not a great deal.
With conventional things move from prospective to contingent to recoverable, through exploration and appraisal drilling.
So my interest is at what point in uncocnventional do things move from prospective to either contingent or recoverable. In particular whether the data from Ice 1 will move the next IRR from prospective. I know from a previous investor presentation that a development plan of sorts is in place, but nto much is said about how we transit to a recoverable volume other than Ice 1, Ice 2 and the seismic. In other words if Ice2 and the seismic come up trumps do we get a 2p and DOC at that stage and bang. I think not at that stage. So next question is will Ice 2 be used for exploitation.
So is the plan to exploit appraisal wells as things progress.
Hopefully the up coming IRR will shed some light on this.

BTW Donum my conservatine basic estimate had a plus qualifier. I'm confident there is plenty of OIP. How much is recoverable at commercial rates is as you know what counts.

IMO DYOR etc

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