Asset report
UK Central Graben exploration basin
Loading current market price
Report summary
The UK Central Graben Basin is located on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) in water depths of less than 100 metres. Conditions are generally benign, with modest storms compared to the nearby Northern North Sea and West Shetland basins. The Mesozoic HP/HT play remains of interest to explorers following the large Culzean discovery in 2008, which is expected onstream in late 2019. Despite the higher-costs in the play, our outlook assumes companies will continue to target HP/HT prospects as this is where the material volumes exist.
What's included
This report contains
Table of contents
-
Key facts
- Assumptions
-
Summary and key issues
- Key issues include:
- Location maps
- Participation
-
Key companies
- Licensing participation
- Geology
-
Exploration
- Wells drilled
- Basin success rates
-
Reserves and resources
- Volumes discovered
-
Prospective resource potential
- Play inputs
- Creaming curve and key play data
- Model field pool size distribution
- Existing discoveries and modelled yet-to-find pool size distribution
-
Development
- Prospective resource costs and underlying development assumptions
-
Costs
- Summary of discovery and development costs
-
Fiscal and regulatory
- Licensing
- Fiscal terms
-
Economic assumptions
- Oil and gas prices
-
Economic analysis
- TYP Economics
- Outlook economics
-
Development value
- Mesozoic HPHT
- Tertiary Shelf
- Mesozoic
-
Prospect breakeven price
- Mesozoic HPHT
- Tertiary Shelf
- Mesozoic
-
Expected monetary value (EMV)
- Tertiary Shelf
- Mesozoic
-
Play economics
- Tertiary Shelf
- Mesozoic
- Full cycle basin economics
- Implied acreage value
Tables and charts
This report includes 72 images and tables including:
Images
- Value creation versus investment (TYP)
- Value creation versus investment (outlook)
- Exploration history map
- Location maps: Image 2
- Licensed exploration acreage
- Expiry forecast of current licences
- Commerciality index
- Gross exploration wells completed by operator
- Net exploration wells completed by participant
- Drilling activity by well type
- Cumulative exploration wells by play
- Discoveries and success rates
- Discoveries by licence year and drilling year
- Basin creaming curve
- Volumes discovered by year
- Average discovery size and volume per well by year
- Cumulative discoveries by play
- Cumulative volumes discovered by play
- Mesozoic HPHT
- Tertiary Shelf
- Mesozoic
- Exploration and appraisal spend
- Exploration spend per well and average well depth
- Brent and local oil price assumptions
- Henry Hub and local gas price assumptions
- Value creation, spend and volume discovered
- Returns by drilling
- Breakeven price versus prospect size
- Value creation versus investment
- Mesozoic HPHT
- Tertiary Shelf
- Mesozoic
- Value of potential discoveries
- Unit value of potential discoveries
- Value of potential discoveries
- Unit value of potential discoveries
- Value of potential discoveries
- Unit value of potential discoveries
- Breakeven price of exploration
- Discount rate breakeven price sensitivities
- Breakeven price of exploration
- Discount rate breakeven price sensitivities
- Breakeven price of exploration
- Discount rate breakeven price sensitivities
Tables
- Play level data
- Key play characteristics
- Recent discovery costs
- Key facts: Table 2
- Key licence holders
- Company success rates and discoveries
- Key basin data
- Top discoveries (TYP period)
- Forecast data by play (outlook)
- Mesozoic HPHT
- Tertiary Shelf
- Mesozoic
- Development: Table 1
- Development: Table 2
- Mesozoic
- Costs: Table 2
- Typical fiscal terms - all plays
- Economic analysis: Table 1
- Economic analysis: Table 4
- Full-cycle economic analysis
- Average value of future discoveries and implied acreage value
- Reserves and resources: Table 4
- Reserves and resources: Table 5
- Reserves and resources: Table 6
- Economic analysis: Table 2
- Economic analysis: Table 3
- Economic analysis: Table 5
- Economic analysis: Table 6
You may be interested in
Country report
Italy upstream summary
Insight
Europe energy in brief
Questions about this report?
-
Europe:+44 131 243 4699
-
Americas:+1 713 470 1900
-
Asia Pacific:+61 2 8224 8898