La production pétroliére des USA

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Shell Offshore makes FID for phased wells campaign in US Gulf of Mexico

By NS Energy Staff Writer 13 Dec 2023

The phased campaign is designed to enhance the output from the Perdido spar production platform in the US Gulf of Mexico by drilling three wells in the Great White unit


Shell’s Perdido production platform in the Gulf of Mexico. (Credit: BSEE/Wikipedia)

Shell Offshore, a subsidiary of British oil and gas company Shell, has made the Final Investment Decision (FID) for a phased drilling campaign in the US Gulf of Mexico.

The campaign aims to boost production from the Perdido spar, a platform that serves three deepwater fields in the US Gulf of Mexico, Great White, Silvertip, and Tobago.

It is designed to deliver three wells in the Great White unit, which is operated by Shell Offshore with a 33.34% interest, alongside Chevron (33.33%) and BP (33.33%).

The three-well campaign is expected to produce up to 22000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) from Perdido spar, which can produce up to 125,000boe/d at peak rates.

Shell Offshore said that the phased campaign is planned to be completed in April 2025.

Shell deep water executive vice president Rich Howe said: “Shell is the leading operator in the US Gulf of Mexico, and we continue to find ways to build on that position. By expanding our Perdido development, we continue to unlock the greatest value from this exceptional resource.”

Perdido Regional Host is a deepwater oil and gas development in the US Gulf of Mexico and has been operated by Shell since March 2010.

Shell owns a 35% working interest in the Perdido Regional Host, alongside Chevron USA with a 37.5% interest, 3C Perdido with a 26.5% interest, and BP Exploration & Production holding a 1% interest.

The oil and gas company said that the investment in Perdido spar reflects its commitment to the US Gulf of Mexico, where production is crucial for a reliable and secure energy supply.

Shell also said its US Gulf of Mexico production has the world’s lowest greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity compared to other IOGP oil- and gas-producing members.

https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/news/s ... of-mexico/

[tita]

Les USA ont creusé beaucoup de puits de pétrole. Ils ont certainement le record. Mais arrivés en fin de vie, ces puits peuvent être laissés à l'abandon. Souvent, ce sont de petites entreprises qui les exploitent (les stripper wells). Parfois, ces entreprises tombent en faillite et les propriétaire laissent simplement le puits en plan.

Les puits de pétrole abandonnés aux Etats-Unis, véritable catastrophe écologique

Certaines prairies de l'Etat du Montana, aux Etats-Unis, se retrouvent parsemées de puits de pétrole abandonnés. Ils représentent un risque écologique et climatique. Mais une fondation s'active pour reboucher ces puits et mettre fin aux fuites de gaz nocif.

De nombreuses pompes à pétrole laissées à l'abandon rouillent au milieu des champs du Montana. Appelés "puits orphelins" par les autorités américaines, ils seraient 3,2 millions à travers tout le pays à avoir été abandonnés. Leur nombre exact n'est pas connu, car ils ne sont pas tous documentés.

https://www.rts.ch/info/monde/14567311- ... gique.html

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US to buy three million barrels of crude oil for strategic reserve

By NS Energy Staff Writer 27 Dec 2023

DOE has awarded contracts, following the Request for Proposal (RFP), to buy 1.2 million barrels from Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals, while about 900,000 barrels each from Macquarie Commodities Trading US and Phillips 66


The US Department of Energy (DoE) has awarded contracts to purchase three million barrels of crude oil produced in the US to support the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).

The contracts have been awarded following the Request for Proposal (RFP), announced earlier this month.

DOE has received a total of 33 proposals in response to the RFP, from nine companies.

It has awarded the contracts to three companies, which met quality and specification requirements, in addition to providing competitive bids.

Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals has been awarded a contract for 1.2 million barrels, and Macquarie Commodities Trading US and Phillips 66 for 900,000 barrels each.

DOE is purchasing crude oil at an average price of $77.31 per barrel, which is well below the average of about $95 per barrel in 2022.

The department expects the deliveries to begin in March 2024, to the Big Hill SPR storage site in Texas.

US DOE, in its statement, said: “Today’s announcement advances the President’s commitment to safeguard and replenish this critical energy security asset.

“This follows President Biden’s historic release from the SPR to address the significant global supply disruption caused by Putin’s war on Ukraine and help keep the domestic market well supplied, ultimately helping to bring down prices for American consumers and businesses.

“Analysis from the Department of the Treasury indicates that SPR releases last year, along with coordinated releases from international partners, reduced gasoline prices by as much as 40 cents per gallon.”

The US government has purchased a total of about 14 million barrels of oil for the SPR, at an average price of $75.63 per barrel.

It will get nearly four million barrels of crude from the oil companies in the form of exchange returns as part of the government’s strategy to refill the SPR.

The oil stocks are stored in underground salt caverns at four sites in Texas and Louisiana, with scheduled maintenance periods and the Life Extension 2 programme.

DOE said that the SPR continues to be the world’s largest supply of emergency crude oil and will prioritise the operational integrity of the SPR as an energy security asset.

https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/news/u ... l-for-spr/

[tita]

Derniers chiffres mensuels de l'EIA pour la production de octobre dernier.

La production est restée identique, passant de 13'252 kb/j à 13'248 kb/j, soit une diminution de 4 kb/j. La production offshore a diminué de 40 kb/j à 1'959 kb/j ce qui fait que la production onshore a augmenté de 36 kb/j. Sur les 5 derniers mois, la production onshore a augmenté de 303 kb/j. Les estimations hebdomadaires étaient à 13'200 kb/j, une sous-estimation de 48 kb/j

Sur les 12 derniers mois (oct. 2022-oct. 2023), la production US a augmenté de 870 kb/j.

Rien de particulier. Pour la première fois depuis presque une année, les estimations hebdomadaires ne sont pas trop sous-estimées.

Pour le fun, voici à quoi ressemble la production US depuis 1920:

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafH ... RFPUS2&f=M

On voit plusieurs phases. La première, c'est la longue montée en puissance de l'industrie pétrolière US jusqu'en 1970 (50 ans). Suivi ensuite par une très longue période (40 ans) de déclin, mais aussi l'augmentation de l'offshore. Ce n'est pas très étonnant, dans le courant des années 2000, que le concept de pic pétrolier était en vogue. Depuis 2010, on a eu droit au premier boom du LTO (Eagle Ford et Bakken), cassé dans son élan par la chute des prix fin 2014. Puis d'un second boom de schiste (Permien), cassé dans l'élan par le confinement en 2020. La dernière phase est plus un récupération qu'un boom, mais l'augmentation reste progressive.

L'EIA, dans son STEO, projette une production pour décembre 2024 à 12'300 kb/j, càd un plateau. On verra si ça s'avère correct, ou si la production US va nous surprendre.

Bonne année à tous!

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U.S. Drilling Continues to Slow

By Julianne Geiger - Jan 05, 2024,

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States fell this week by 1, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday—the first weekly data of the new year.

The total rig count fell by 1 to 621 this week. Over the course of 2023, the United States has seen the active rig count for oil and gas fall by 157, while achieving record-breaking production. The end of year rig count was also 452 fewer rigs than the pre-pandemic era—again, all while beating pre-pandemic production rates by 1.377 million bpd, according to EIA data.
The number of oil rigs rose by 1 this week, and now stand at 501--down by 117 compared to this time last year. The number of gas rigs fell by 2 this week to 118, a loss of 34 active gas rigs from this time last year. Miscellaneous rigs stayed the same at 2.

Meanwhile, U.S. crude oil production slipped 100,000 bpd to an average of 13.2 million bpd in the week ending December 29—a 1.1 million bpd increase from the same week in 2022.
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https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-Gene ... -Slow.html

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The 11 States Leading America’s Oil Production Boom

By Robert Rapier - Jan 02, 2024

U.S. oil production has increased by 21% over the past five years. According to data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), earlier this month U.S. oil producers set a new annual production record.

This increase is being driven by a surge of production in a handful of states. I thought it might be of interest to look at which states are contributing the most to U.S. oil production, and how much production has changed over the past five years.
Total production for 2023 is not yet available, but monthly numbers are available through September (as well as weekly number through mid-December). I averaged oil production over the past 12 months (October 2022 through September 2023) for the entire U.S., as well as for every state that reported oil production in the past five years. (See the data source here).

Here were the Top 11 oil-producing states over the past year. Production is in million barrels per day (BPD).


Top 11 Oil-Producing States in 2023. ROBERT RAPIER

Texas is contributing the largest share to the production record at 42.6% of the U.S. total. This is primarily due to surging production in the Permian Basin. The Permian Basin effect can also be seen in New Mexico’s incredible 190% surge over the past five years. New Mexico is now the country’s second-leading oil producer.

Production in North Dakota is still above one million bpd, but oil production there is down from its peak. However, North Dakota production has been increasing this year, and is up 17% over the past year.
Five of the eleven states shown have seen production decline over the past five years. If you wonder why I listed eleven states, it was primarily to include Ohio, which has not historically been thought of as one of the leading oil producers. Ohio’s production is still modest relative to states like Texas and New Mexico, but it is growing due to development in the Utica Shale in the Appalachian Basin.

A hundred years ago, California was the country’s top oil producer. In the late 1980s, California was still producing over one million bpd. But production has been in steady decline there, due to politics and unfavorable geology that rendered hydraulic fracturing less appealing than in midwestern oil and gas formations. Over the past five years, California’s 30.7% decline in oil production is the largest among top producers.

One major area of production that I didn’t consider here was federal offshore production in the Gulf of Mexico. Over the past year, that contributed another 1.84 million bpd, which is 9.3% higher than it was five years ago (and just under the record 1.898 million bpd level set in 2019).

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/T ... -Boom.html

[tita]

U.S. Drilling Continues to Slow

En fait, non. Depuis fin septembre (3 mois), le décompte des forages reste pratiquement inchangé. 502 pétrole, 116 gaz et 623 total le 29 septembre, 501 pétrole, 118 gaz et 621 total dans le dernier. Et durant cette période, le total a fluctué entre 616 et 626.

U.S. oil production has increased by 21% over the past five years

Heu, les 5 dernières années sont tellement chaotiques que c'est difficile de parler de boom. La production moyenne US des 12 derniers mois est 4% plus élevées que la production moyenne de 2019. On peut pas parler de boom.

Par contre, la production moyenne de 2019 est 40% plus élevée que la production moyenne de 2016... Là, y'a eu un boom.

[alain2908]

je trouve interessant le détail par Etat de la production US.

Elle donne bien à voir l'énorme concentration de la production qui pour plus de la moitié, repose sur le seul Bassin permien.

je ne vois pas à ce stade, d'autres bassins susceptibles de prendre le relais.

[tita]

je trouve interessant le détail par Etat de la production US.

Elle donne bien à voir l'énorme concentration de la production qui pour plus de la moitié, repose sur le seul Bassin permien.

je ne vois pas à ce stade, d'autres bassins susceptibles de prendre le relais.

Attention au fait que y'a aussi Eagle Ford au Texas, qui produit encore un peu plus d'1Mb/j (8% de la production US), et qu'il y a aussi une partie de l'offshore dans le Golfe du Mexique qui est techniquement au Texas.

Mais en effet, le bassin permien représente 45% de la production US. (source: DPR). Et c'était le moteur principal du second boom du schiste entre 2015 et 2019.

[alain2908]

j'aime bien ce graphique, je trouve qu'il montre que la production US 2023 est en gros celle qu'on aurait du avoir en 2020 si le COVID n'était pas passé par là.
Pour 2024, j'imagine qu'ils ont prévu de rester au dessus des 13 MB/J.

[energy_isere]

US Oil, Gas Drillers Add 1 Rig Despite Freezing Temps

By Julianne Geiger - Jan 19, 2024,

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday.

The total rig count rose by 1 to 620 this week, compared to 771 rigs this same time last year.
The number of oil rigs fell by 2 this week, settling at 497--down by 116 compared to this time last year. The number of gas rigs rose by 3 this week to 120, a loss of 36 active gas rigs from this time last year. Miscellaneous rigs stayed at 3.

Meanwhile, U.S. crude oil production rose to an average of 13.3 million bpd in the week ending January 12—returning to a previous all-time high that was originally set on December 15. This level is a 1.31 million bpd increase from the same week in 2022.
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https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-Gene ... Temps.html

[tita]

Pour 2024, j'imagine qu'ils ont prévu de rester au dessus des 13 MB/J.

Yep, 13.21 Mb/j en moyenne sur 2024, selon les prévision de l'EIA. En 2023, c'est 12.92 Mb/j en moyenne.

[tita]

Derniers chiffres mensuels de l'EIA pour la production de novembre dernier.

La production a augmenté, passant de 13'224 kb/j à 13'308 kb/j, soit une augmentation de 84 kb/j. La production offshore a diminué de 78 kb/j à 1'873 kb/j ce qui fait que la production onshore a augmenté de 162 kb/j. Sur les 5 derniers mois, la production onshore a augmenté de 400 kb/j. Les estimations hebdomadaires étaient à 13'200 kb/j, une sous-estimation de 108 kb/j

Sur les 12 derniers mois (nov. 2022-nov. 2023), la production US a augmenté de 932 kb/j.

Le LTO continue d'augmenter, sans que ce soit spectaculaire. La production se maintient à un niveau élevé. Il y a généralement un peu de baisse dans les mois d'hiver (décembre-février), on verra ce que ça donne. Rien de spécial en fait.

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US Oil, Gas Drillers Take Their Foot Off The Gas

By Julianne Geiger - Feb 02, 2024

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States fell this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday.

The total rig count fell by 2 to 619 this week, compared to 759 rigs this same time last year.
The number of oil rigs stayed the same this week after rising by 2 last week, staying at 499--down by 100 compared to this time last year. The number of gas rigs fell by 2 this week to 117, a loss of 41 active gas rigs from this time last year. Miscellaneous rigs stayed at 3.

Meanwhile, U.S. crude oil production rose by 700,000 bpd to average 13.0 million bpd in the week ending January 26. The large production increase, however, only came after a 1 million bpd fall in the week prior as a cold snap took production offline. Production rates in the U.S. are still down by 200,000 bpd since the start of the year.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-Gene ... e-Gas.html

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États-Unis: naissance d'un nouveau géant du pétrole et du gaz

RFI 13 fev 2024

Aux États-Unis, c’est l’une des opérations les plus importantes dans le secteur de l’énergie. Diamondback a annoncé ce lundi 12 février un accord pour absorber son compatriote Endeavor, avec pour objectif de former un acteur majeur du gaz et du pétrole.

Diamondback et Endeavor devraient peser 50 milliards de dollars. À elles deux, les sociétés vont surtout se hisser au rang de troisième producteur de pétrole et de gaz de schiste du bassin permien, cette immense région qui couvre l’ouest du Texas et une partie du Nouveau-Mexique concentre aujourd'hui près de la moitié de la production américaine de pétrole.

Nouvelle étape

Mais cette union marque aussi une nouvelle étape dans la consolidation du secteur aux États-Unis. Les géants, attirés par les opportunités de synergie et donc d'économies, enchainent les acquisitions. Ces derniers mois, Exxon Mobil a racheté l'un des spécialistes du gaz de schiste Pionneer Natural Resources, tandis que Chevron s'est offert son compatriote Hess Corporation.

Les capacités bondissent aux États-Unis

L’objectif est d’extraire toujours plus de pétrole. Les capacités de production aux États-Unis ont bondi ces dernières années. Elles ont atteint un record en novembre : avec plus de 13 millions de barils de produit par jour. De quoi consolider la place des États-Unis, premier producteur mondial de pétrole, loin devant l'Arabie saoudite.

https://www.msn.com/fr-fr/finance/other ... a5a2&ei=42