Anyone Work Offshore..

[Joe1888 672]

theres been alot of talk about the last few days, am not shit stiring, looking to see if any the offshore worker on here know anything about it as i know theres a few on here.

 

its said the worlds largest offshore oilfield has been found in shetland and its been covered up by the uk gov untill september.

 

its said the uk pms recent secret vist to shetland last week was that secret none of the press, national or local press knew about it.. its said he missed the cabinet meeting, and back just in time to make the games for the trip.

 

its said the drilling rig was demaned and workers sent home untill september

 

 

theres nothing official, makes me think might be a wind up..

Edited August 3, 2014 by Joe1888

[nothernlite 18,028]

DID ALEX SALMOND TELL YOU THAT IF ITS TOP SECRET IM SURE SOMEBODY ON THL WILL KNOW FFS

[Joe1888 672]

easy mate, just asking.. not looking to cause any hastle

[Born Hunter 17,642]

What a coincidence, the worlds largest offshore oilfield has been found just as the Yes vote loses all hope and it's the big bad Union holding it back from the Scottish eh....

 

I'm inclined to think it's bollocks as well Joe.

Edited August 3, 2014 by Born Hunter

[Joe1888 672]

aye i was thinking that, then i remembered the mccrone report.. no harm in asking

Edited August 3, 2014 by Joe1888

[nothernlite 18,028]

You better be careful Joe

If true the Shetlands might demand a vote on leaving Scotland and going it alone lol

WAS THERE NO TALK OF THAT

[Joe1888 672]

finaly found something, looks like i got some of info wrong..last ill reply as i can see where its going..

 

 

Rumours of a massive oil find to the west of Shetland are growing after Prime Minister David Cameron made a secret visit to the islands just under two weeks ago.

On July 22nd Mr Cameron turned up in Shetland unannounced. At the airport the Prime Minister was accompanied by the Secretary of State for Scotland Alistair Carmichael.

The secret visit, the first by a serving UK Prime Minister for 34 years, angered national media who were unable to despatch journalists to Shetland in time. Commenting on the visit, Scottish Secretary Carmichael told a local newspaper that the visit was, "the closest to a secret I’ve known in Shetland".

However, suspicions were aroused when, within days of the visit, BP announced that the start-up of the Clair Ridge twin-bridge oilfield had been delayed by one year. However the delay was said to be due to the amount of work being carried out by the South Korean fabricator.

The Clair field is located 75 km West of Shetland - Clair Ridge is the second phase of the Clair Field development. BP has invested £4.5 billion in the Clair Ridge Project and expects to extract 640 million barrels of recoverable oil, and see up to 120 thousand barrels per day at peak.

Estimates put the total amount of oil at 7 billion barrels equivalent.

One week before Mr Cameron’s visit, industry specialists Synectics announced it had designed and delivered an end-to-end surveillance solution for Clair Ridge. The new technolocy is expected to result in more than 40 million additional barrels being cost-effectively recovered over the lifetime of the field.

Oil reserves known to exist around the Shetland waters have never been extracted due to the difficulties in getting to the reserves. However advances in technology coupled with high oil prices have now made the reserves economic to extract.

The Clair Ridge project will include the world’s first offshore full field deployment of LoSal enhanced oil recovery technology to modify the salinity of water injected into the reservoir and increase the recovery of oil.

This weekend rumours spread that workers on a rig in the Clair field had been sent home on full pay and told not to return until late September, coincidentally after the independence referendum.

An unnamed worker believed to be from the rig in question is said to have revealed that the amount of recoverable oil exceeds initial estimates and that the Clair could in fact be one of the biggest in the world. There are also claims that the quality of the oil discovered is much better than usual for the north sea.

The story was broken on Friday by online site Yes International. According to the outlet 'contractors working for BP were stood down after obtaining the results of the latest test drilling statistics.'

It added: 'It was said that the test results [for Clair] "far exceeded expectations".

'We have had other information that contractors have in fact been sent home on full pay just after receiving these results and that they were advised that they would not be recalled until after the referendum.'

Yes International revealed that Downing Street had refused to answer any questions but that BP had confirmed "We intend to invest billions in the area in the coming years".

The rig believed to be involved is the Paul B Loyd Jr which was recently transported to the Clair Ridge sector. According to the offshore industry tracker Rigzone, the status of the rig is currently 'drilling'.

Industry magazine Upstream said of Clair Ridge: 'positive signals are emerging from an ongoing appraisal drilling campaign.'

Speaking at a press briefing days ago, BP chief executive Bob Dudley said: "We remain very enthusiastic about Clair Ridge - appraisal wells are looking good. It is helping us to define the structure out there.

"[Clair Ridge] will be a project once we get it on in the next few years that has the potential to produce until 2050."

If the rumours of a massive find are true, then the Clair will become the second field to the west of Shetland to exceed expectations.

In June this year it emerged that the Lancaster field had also produced results that were greater than initial estimates.

Hurricane Energy, the company behind the find, said production tests using a pump achieved a flow rate of 9,800 barrels of oil per day, well above expectations.

"I am delighted to report the successful completion of our testing operations which have achieved hydrocarbon flow rates in the upper range of our pre-drill estimates," said chief executive Robert Trice in a statement.

The Lancaster field is believed to hold a fifth of the North Sea's total untapped oil and gas resource.

Edited August 3, 2014 by Joe1888

[pesky1972 4,931]

Know a few BP bods working at SVT...haven't heard any mention of it from them. From what I've read not sure they would know though...

http://www.oilandgaspeople.com/news/987/worlds-largest-oil-field-not-found-the-mystery-surrounding-the-prime-ministers-shetland-visit/

 

Sounds to me like a bit of mischief making with the indy vote round the corner. Would be great news if it was true though.

[neil82 1,009]

is this the copy and paste as long as it gives us freedom numpty on again under another name, I hope not, the sheite he peddled was boring enough the first (second, third,fourth) time

[Joe1888 672]

i was looking for more info on this, as it was going about.. found more

 

its hard to believe when we keep getting told its about to run out then we see stuff like this

 

the field is expecting to start up in 2016 with production growing over 4 years to more 100,000 barrels of oil per day. new tech could lead to more oil, we cant get to at moment.

 

good vid at

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN7nvWvPWro

Edited August 30, 2014 by Joe1888

[Brigzy 1,298]

If "they" wanted to keep it secret; why the hell would Cameron go up there ?

 

And Joe; 100,000 barrels a day is barely worth the exploration costs.

 

I'm one of the worlds greatest "conspiricy theorists", but the best conspiricys need to have a grounding in truth.

[Joe1888 672]

they tryed to keep his visit secret..

 

anyway, its good to see its not going to run out tomorrow like some want us to believe now, like the 70's( mccrone report) and this tech could lead to unlocking billions of barrels.