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92 comments on Tupi, the new kid in town

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Luis de Sousa on November 22, 2007 - 1:11pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Ghawar is an outlier. It's like “huge”. The reservoir is almost an aberration.

The probability to find something like it again is zero. To put it in contest, another field like Ghawar would cut in half the “yet to find” reserves, from 200 Gb to 100 Gb.

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Euan Mearns on November 22, 2007 - 3:04pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Luis - just to remind everyone not eating Turkey, Ghawar has a fabulous seal - able to hold back a 1300 ft oil column - that is the secret. And 2000 m of salt is also a fabulous seal - if the salt does seal the structure.

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Luis de Sousa on November 22, 2007 - 3:42pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The layer where Tupi was found has more than enough area to harbour a reservoir the size of Ghawar (800Km x 200Km). But Tupi's reservoir is much smaller (if in fact it's only one).

Beyond the seal that holds a deep oil column, Ghawar is even more impressive because of the incredible extent of the reservoir, a cavity almost 300 Km long.

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BobCousins on November 22, 2007 - 5:52pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Ghawar is even more impressive because of the incredible extent of the reservoir, a cavity almost 300 Km long.

The reservoir is a cavity? I never realised that.

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alan on November 23, 2007 - 12:21pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

If you mean an open space filled only with oil, its not.

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