C-NLOPB licenses Equinor discovery offshore Newfoundland
The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) has issued Significant Discovery License 1060 offshore eastern Newfoundland to Equinor Canada Ltd. and has released a related volume estimate.
The Cambriol G-92 discovery was made in late 2020 by Equinor (operator, 60%) and BP Canada (40%) (OGJ Online, Oct. 29, 2020).
C-NLOPB assessed the recoverable oil volume of the discovery as 340 million bbl based on interpretation of well and seismic data, the Canadian regulator said in a release Feb. 2.
C-NLOPB’s petroleum resources management system defines contingent resources as “volumes of hydrocarbons, expressed at 50% probability, assessed to be technically recoverable that have not been delineated and have unknown economic viability”. This includes oil in fields/pools that are not approved for development.
Alex Procyk | Upstream Editor
Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).
