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Q1 2020
Exploration Task Force meeting
5th March 2020
Task Force Purpose Statement
“Maintaining UKCS Exploration and Appraisal activity, making the most of the UK’s own energy resources
in support of the transition towards a net zero carbon future and beyond”
Exploration Task Force
Next Meeting – Q2 XTF meeting 3rd June 2020
Agenda1:30pm – Start• Introduction & Safety Brief
• XTF overview
• Updated membership
• XTF priorities 2020
• Energy Transition
• Opportunity Maturation
Break• Licencing
• Data
• Technology
• AOB
4:30pm – Close
XTF Membership
The XTF provides leadership and support to UKCS exploration & appraisal activity
Nick TerrellManaging Director,
Azinor Catalyst
Jenny MorrisHead of Exploration,
Chrysaor
John UnderhillChief Scientist & Professor,
Heriot-Watt University
John ColleranUK Expl & Dev Director,
Neptune
Graham GoffeyFounder/Direct
Soliton Resources Ltd.
Nick RichardsonHead of Exploration & New
Ventures, OGA
Colin PercivalTechnical Director,
Athena Exploration
Andy AlexanderChief Geophysicist,
Siccar Point Energy
Chrysanthe MunnExploration Manager,
BP
Katy HeidenreichOperations Director,
Oil & Gas UK
TBCIAGC Representative
Ben HillierExploration Manager UK,
Shell
Mohamed-Amine SoudaniNorth Sea Area Exploration
Manager, Total
Rod CrawfordTechnical Director,
Zennor Petroleum
Anne-Sophie CytevalUK Exploration Manager,
Spirit Energy
Gillian WhiteSolution Centre Manager -
Subsurface, OGTC
Making the most of the UK’s own energy resources towards a net zero carbon future and beyond.
exploration
task forceEnergy Transition
Ensuring the case for continued UKCS exploration is made
• Advise on & promote ‘case for continued exploration’ through Roadmap 2035
o Requirement to meet UK Energy needs through ET
o Net Carbon benefit of domestic production vs imported energy
• Attract and retain transferrable skills, expertise and data
• Securing Social Licence to Operate through the ET and beyond
exploration
task force2020 MER UK Priorities & Initiatives
Endorsed & ranked by Industry at recent MER UK Exploration Forum
PRIORITIES
1. Licensing 2. Data 3. Technology 4. Opportunity Maturation
Initiatives
1.Promote & encourage
collaborative commercial
behaviours
2.Advise on & ensure fit for purpose
licensing regime
3.Promote alignment with the OGA’s
Stewardship Expectations
1.Facilitate data release
2.Support development of best in
class National Data Repository
3.Promote digital initiatives and
improved ways of working
1.Support OGTC exploration
projects
2.Champion new technologies
3.Work collaboratively to deliver our
four TLB challenges
1.Support sustainable hubs and
implemented area plans
2.Promote cross-border collaboration
3.Support collaborative regional
exploration projects
4.Leverage UKCS Yet-To-Find data to
identify new focus area
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The XTF provides leadership and support to UKCS exploration & appraisal activity
5th March 2020
Energy Transition
Q1 XTF meeting
Katy Heidenreich (OGUK)
Jenny Morris (Chrysaor)
John Underhill (Heriot-Watt University)
Making the most of the UK’s own energy resources towards a net zero carbon future and beyond
exploration
task force
Priorities• Advise on & promote ‘case for continued exploration’ through Roadmap 2035
o Requirement to meet UK Energy needs through ET
o Net Carbon benefit of domestic production vs imported energy
• Attract and retain transferrable skills, expertise and data
• Securing Social Licence to Operate through the ET and beyond
XTF Leads
Jenny Morris (Chrysaor)
Katy Heidenreich (OGUK)
John Underhill (Heriot-Watt University)
Energy TransitionEnsuring the case for continued UKCS exploration is made
5th March 2020
Opportunity Maturation Priority
Q1 XTF meeting
John Colleran (Neptune)
Anne-Sophie Cyteval (Spirit)
Graham Goffey (Soliton)
• Where are the existing hubs and
area plans located?
• What has worked well so far and
what hasn’t? – learn and plan
ahead accordingly
• Encourage new hub or play
based Special Interest Groups
eg a SNS Zechstein play group
could include current interested
parties – progress/share
technical/business issues & build
collaborative approach
within and between licence groups
Opportunity Maturation PriorityTask Delivery Group
Key Initiative
1.Support sustainable hubs and implemented area plans
2.Support collaborative regional exploration projects
Tasks
Promote OGUK Reserves Progression Self Verification Tool to explorers
Work with Asset Stewardship Task Force to identify data sharing improvement
opportunities on infrastructure and hosts
Launch scaled-down version of Phase 2 of Petroleum System Project, following industry
commitment of c.£500k industry
Key Stakeholders
OGA, OGUK, OGIA, MER UK Asset Stewardship Task Force, MER UK Wells Task Force
XTF Leads
John Colleran (Neptune)
Anne-Sophie Cyteval (Spirit)
Graham Goffey (Soliton)
Supporting sustainable hubs, implementation area plans & collaborative regional exploration projects
Opportunity Maturation PriorityPreferred characteristics of industry-funded regional projects:
• Standalone utility: deliverable via one or more widely available, easily accessed and used platforms; no need for
bespoke software to facilitate use
• Data aggregation: consolidation and compilation of disparate data spread through the NDR, in databases OGA has
purchased, BGS archive data, etc. Ideally also capable of facilitating access to additional data extracted from oil company
archives
• Facilitates interpretation: industry has not been keen on interpreted products, although interpretive clean-up or
categorisation of data seems helpful
• Machine-readable: ideally facilitates machine reading (digital data, machine readable text, etc.)
• No commercial overlap: not duplicating or competing with 3rd party commercial databases
• Ability to attract industry funding from wide range of companies
• Wider utility: e.g. of value for future CCS projects
Supporting sustainable hubs, implementation area plans & collaborative regional exploration projects
Opportunity Maturation Priority
Supporting sustainable hubs, implementation area plans & collaborative regional exploration projects
Project Idea Description Pros Cons“Crowd sourced” well failure
analysis for released exploration
wells
Industry provide data into single UKCS
well failure database that could be
released via the OGA’s digital platform
• Fulfils industry request
• Collaborative project that
benefits wide cross section of
industry
• Petroleum & potential CCS
application
• No funding required
• Some companies may not
participate
Compilation of regional
subsurface databases
Effectively a continuation of the UKCS
Petroleum Systems model, focused on
key data types e.g. reservoir quality,
pressure, stratigraphic data
• Builds on initial pilot of UKCS
geochemical database
• Consolidation of disparate
data spread through the
NDR, OGA databases, BGS
archive data etc.
• Additional access to data
extracted from oil company
archives
• Expensive – needs
significant industry
funding
• Scaled down version
may not realise sufficient
value for participating
companies
Semi-regional collaboration
around exploration
uncertainties and understanding
Encourage licence groups with similar or
complementary initial term work
programmes to work together to increase
regional understanding through
collaborative approach to studies, seismic
acquisition/reprocessing etc
• Increased value for money for
work programme commitments
• Collaborative approach to
exploration activity
• “Competitive edge” used
as an excuse not to
collaborate
• Relative value of work
programme items not
equal
5th March 2020
Licencing Priority
Q1 XTF meeting
Colin Percival (Athena Exploration)
Ben Hillier (Shell)
Objective:
• Make the UKCS a great place to do
business for Oil & Gas
– Ease of acquiring licences
– Ease of delivering success
Issues:
• Licence Award
– LARRY update and training
– Ensuring collaboration is rewarded
• Licence Ownership
– Standard Agreements e.g. JOA
– Interaction with other users e.g.
Offshore Wind
– Ensuring collaboration is rewarded
Licensing PriorityTask Delivery Group
Key Initiative
1.Promote & encourage collaborative commercial behaviours
Tasks
Review JOA Standard Agreement and revise if required
Review and recommend improvements to LARRY. Facilitate training on
LARRY system for all users
Licensing of offshore Wind vs Oil & Gas - establish the Industry issues
Licence award and Stewardship process – ensure collaboration is a
key part of the process
Key Stakeholders
OGA, OGUK (including Commercial Managers and Legal Forum),
OGIA, Crown Estate, BEIS
XTF Leads
Ben Hillier (Shell)
Colin Percival (Athena Exploration)
Promote & encourage collaborative commercial behaviours
Licensing Status
• Innovate Licence working well
• LARRY working well
• Award process – quicker but would like to improve
• Appendix C – lots of wasted effort/money
• Marks scheme not clearly aligned with MER
• Standard Agreements e.g. JOA developed prior to Innovate Licence
Licensing Priority – UKCS Status• UKCS historically a big project basin
• In mature areas (North Sea) it needs to become a small project basin
– 350 undeveloped discoveries (small pools) with ca. 2.5 billion boe. All worked individually and cannot
be made commercial. Issues are:
• Size
• Fluids
• Reservoir
– Collective solutions i.e. cluster development – geographic or technology required to deliver at least
some of these
– Delivering success will help unlock exploration drilling in mature areas – mainly small prospects left
which in a success case will often just add to inventory. Risk is not the main issue – volume is – only
finding ca. 40% of predicted volume
– Upside is in stratigraphic traps – mainly found by drilling smaller features
• Collaboration needs to be rewarded in licence awards and ownership
– Key to unlocking much of contingent and prospective resource base
Promote & encourage collaborative commercial behaviours
Licensing Priority - Tasks• Review Standard JOA and revise
– Current Standard JOA put in place prior to Innovate Licence
– Needs update to align with Innovate Licence:
• Initial Term can now be divided into 3 phases
• Licence Administrator vs. Operator
– OGUK to set up call with all interested parties in next few weeks.
– Make it mandatory?
• LARRY
– Review and recommend improvements
– Implement improvements and training
• Licensing of Offshore Wind vs. Oil and Gas
– Discuss with key stakeholders and establish the issues
• Licence Award
– Review the Marks Scheme and update to reward collaboration
Promote & encourage collaborative commercial behaviours
5th March 2020
Data Priority
Q1 XTF meeting
Rod Crawford (Zennor Petroleum)
Data PriorityTask Delivery Group
Key Initiative
1. Facilitate data release
2. Support development of best in class National Data Repository
Tasks
Support improvements to how seismic field data can be accessed
Support creation of NDR Roadmap and promotion to all stakeholder
Support the business case for release of well production data (by
well/by reservoir)
Key Stakeholders
OGA, OGUK, OGIA, NDR Steering Committee, IAGC, MER UK Asset
Stewardship Task Force
XTF Leads
Rod Crawford (Zennor)
TBC (IAGC)
Facilitate data release & support development of best in class NDR
Data Priority
• Status
– CDA database adopted in early 2019
– Through the published Guidelines OGA are• Expanding the scope of database
• Expanding the volume of data
• Schedule
– NDR 2 is being planned for 2021
– Definition of the nature of NDR 2 will continue through 2020
• How does the XTF want to influence NDR 2
Promote & encourage collaborative commercial behaviours
Data Priority
• Would the XTF prefer NDR 2 to be
– Merely online storage ?• Copies of data (wells / seismic)
• Copies of static and dynamic models of abandoned fields
• Copies of 4D seismic
• Copies of reports (end of well, drilling reports etc.)
• Site surveys, geotechnical, pipeline route survey etc.
• Available for download and re-storage
– Or an active database in the cloud ?• Searchable reports
• Automatic links to well logs
• Active viewing of seismic
– Or somewhere in between ?
Promote & encourage collaborative commercial behaviours
Data Priority
• There is the future
– MER …. Minimising re-inventing the wheel
– Decommissioning
– Wind farm development
– Environmental assessments
– Re-use of the marine environment.
• The choice is ours
– we will end up paying for it
Promote & encourage collaborative commercial behaviours
5th March 2020
Technology Priority
Q1 XTF meeting
Mohamed-Amine Soudani (Total)
Gillian White (OGTC)
AGENDA
• NNS Machine Learning Project
• Call For Ideas Projects
• Progress TLB Challenges
Technology PriorityTask Delivery Group
Key Initiative
1. Support OGTC exploration projects
Tasks
Support OGTC in delivery of NNS Machine Learning Project, ensuring
results are published to industry as soon as possible
Support progression of OGTC Exploration Call for Ideas projects
Ensure progression of TLB Challenge – short and medium term
priorities
Key Stakeholders
OGTC, TLB, OGA, OGUK, OGIA
XTF Leads
Mohamed-Amine Soudani (Total)
Gillian White (OGTC)
Support OGTC exploration projects
Technology Priority: NNS Machine Learning Portfolio Project
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Technology Priority: MER alignment
NNS Portfolio
NNS Portfolio
DataCo – Moveout
Rockflow
Support OGTC exploration projects
Optic Earth (BP)
S-Cube
Seismic Image
Processing
ARL
Technology Priority:
Support OGTC exploration projects
5th March 2020
AOB
Q1 XTF meeting