Why are some deepwater plays still attractive?
Report summary
Table of contents
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Executive summary
- Explorers narrow focus to deepwater sweet spots
- Key to the sweet spots: exceptional reservoirs at unexceptional depths
- The sweetest of oil sweet spots - Brazil’s pre-salt carbonates
- Most productive of all – the deepwater gas giants
- Better reservoirs break even at lower prices
- Plenty of exploration upside in the same deepwater sweet spots
- Deepwater is not so different – its always the best rocks that triumph
Tables and charts
This report includes 8 images and tables including:
- Scattergun deepwater exploration (2012-2014)
- Focused deepwater exploration (2015-2017)
- Reservoir depth and productivity of recent and probable deepwater oil developments
- Reservoir depth and productivity of recent deepwater gas FIDs versus oil FIDs
- Pre-tax breakeven price versus EUR for deepwater oil
- Post-tax breakeven price versus EUR for deepwater oil
- Deepwater oil exploration potential by reservoir quality
- Deepwater well EUR compared with onshore
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