Environmentally Sustainable Outdoor Practices: Arctic Regions
”Arctic and Cold Regions Prospects and Challenges”
Transcript of ”Arctic and Cold Regions Prospects and Challenges”
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”Arctic and Cold RegionsProspects and Challenges”
Minister of Petroleum and EnergyThorhild Widvey
US – Norway Oil and Gas Industry Summit 2 March 2005Houstonian Hotel, Houston
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Oil prices: Historical and future-prices
2005
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The Largest Industry in Norway (2003)
Source: Statistics Norway
45 %24 %
The petroleum sector’s direct share of total employment was 1,2 percent in 2003
19 %
The petroleum sector’s share of GDP
19 %
The petroleum sector’s share of GDP
25 %
The petroleum sector’s share ofState revenues
The petroleum sector’s share of total investment
The petroleum sector’s share of total exports
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Production and Net Export of Liquids* 2004
2,352,6
3,083,193,493,833,96
7,629,029,2
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UAE
Venezuela
Canada
Norway
China
Mexico
Iran
USA
Saudi Arabia
Russia
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1,511,762,012,012,042,12,47
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Mexico
Kuwait
UAE
Nigeria
Venezuela
Iran
Norway
Russia
Saudi Arabia
mill b/d
Production Net export
* includes both crude oil and NGLSource: Petroleum Economics Ltd
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High activity at the NCS
Oseberg 2015Troll 300
SnøhvitOrmen lange
SatellittutbyggingerStatfjord senfase
Tampen 2020
Valhall redevelopment
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Norwegian continental shelfLarge resources left to be found and produced
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The Arctic challenge
USGS: 25% of the world’sundiscovered resources to be
found in the Arctic
Source: USGS, Statoil
Arktis
Rest of the
world
N.Africa, Caspian,
M.East
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The R&D Challenge
• Subsea flow assurance and processing for long tie-backs
• Environmental considerations
• Drilling and intervention and offshore and onshore facilities in the arctic, and
• Transport solutions for oil, gas/LNG from arctic frontiers to the markets
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Snøhvit – a New Concept for LNG Production • Sub-sea production
• Multiphase transport > 140 km
• LNG process and shipping technology
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Source:
Statoil
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Ormen Lange Field Development
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TheOrmen Lange Offshore ProductionFacilityTheOrmen Lange Offshore ProductionFacility
Source:
Hydro
• Complex seabed topography
• New tool for design and simulation of pipe laying operations
• A globally unique innovation
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OG21 National Technology Strategy
Vision
• World class competence• A leading global industry• The most innovative
offshore province in the world
5 Focus Areas
• Deep Water • Environment• Increased Recovery• Small Fields• Gas Value Chain