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Kuwait To Start Offshore Oil Exploration
Kuwait plans to start an offshore oil exploration programme within two years, state news agency KUNA on Wednesday cited a Kuwait Oil Co (KOC) executive as saying, part of plans to boost oil output capacity.
In comments suggesting Kuwait will maintain energy investments despite plunging oil prices, KOC’s manager of planning, Bader Al-Attar, was quoted as saying his country aimed to add a total of 700,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil production capacity from offshore and onshore areas.
Attar did not identify the potential offshore locations.
Most of Kuwait’s production is from the onshore Burgan field, the world’s second largest, in the southeast of the country, though it also extracts reserves from an offshore Neutral Zone where it shares facilities with Saudi Arabia.
Attar also said Kuwait aims to boost production capacity to 3.5 million bpd by the end of 2015, including from the Neutral Zone, from around 3.15 million bpd now.
A Kuwaiti oil industry source told Reuters last week his country will raise oil output by between 250,000 and 270,000 bpd by the end of the year to make up for production lost from two shut oil fields.
Attar was quoted saying by KUNA his country still wanted to lift output capacity to 4 million bpd by 2020 and sustain this level to 2030.
4 Comments on "Kuwait To Start Offshore Oil Exploration"
rockman on Thu, 17th Sep 2015 5:14 pm
They can expect any production increase they want. But yet to be drilled exploratory wells have ZERO RESERVES. Every dry hole/non-commercial well drilled (and there have been hundreds of thousands of them) was poked based upon the potential to discover significant volumes of hydrocarbons. And those “reserves” weren’t there.
Nony on Thu, 17th Sep 2015 10:38 pm
You are tilting at windmills. The article does not even contain any confusion regarding reserves.
The article is about Kuwaiti offshore exploration. Maybe there’s good prospects, maybe there aren’t. Kuwait has been schizoid about investing here in the past. And then there are the issues with Saudi Arabia in joint projects. Discuss those topics.
GregT on Fri, 18th Sep 2015 2:01 am
The Nony said: “The article is about Kuwaiti offshore exploration.”
Yet the article says: “Bader Al-Attar, was quoted as saying his country aimed to add a total of 700,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil production capacity from offshore and onshore areas.
Attar did not identify the potential offshore locations.”
So Rockman is correct in saying: “yet to be drilled exploratory wells have ZERO RESERVES.”
As usual Nony, you are completely out to lunch.
Nony on Fri, 18th Sep 2015 10:28 am
The article is talking about an exploration program. Duh. Duh.