OUR GREAT MINDS

    by Tina Olivero

    BHP: Offshore Newfoundland Has A New Player

    By Tina Olivero – The OGM –

    Steve Pastor, BHP President Operations Petroleum said the successful bids offshore Newfoundland are an exciting opportunity for BHP to explore for world-class conventional oil assets as an early mover in this prospective region. He envisions, “This frontier opportunity has large oil resource potential which we identified through our Global Petroleum Endowment Study in 2016 and is in a low-risk country, with competitive fiscal terms. This opportunity delivers on our exploration focus in conventional petroleum and will leverage our global deep-water development and operational expertise.”

    WHO IS BHP?

    BHP is a world-leading resources company. BHP extracts and processes minerals and oil and gas, with more than 62,000 employees and contractors, primarily in Australia and the Americas. BHP products are sold worldwide, with sales and marketing led through Singapore and Houston, United States.

    BHP global headquarters are in Melbourne, Australia with offices around the globe and have now expanded into Eastern Canada as an offshore exploration investor.

    BHP operates under a Dual Listed Company structure with two parent companies (BHP Billiton Limited and BHP Billiton Plc) operated as if they were a single economic entity,  referred to as BHP.

    BHP PETROLEUM UNIT

    BHP Petroleum unit comprises conventional and unconventional oil and gas operations,
    and includes exploration, development and production activities.

    BHP has a high-quality resource base concentrated in the United States and Australia.
    Core production operations consist of conventional assets located in the US Gulf of Mexico,
    Australia and Trinidad and Tobago and unconventional Onshore US assets.

    BHP produces crude oil and condensate, gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs) that are sold
    on the international spot market or delivered domestically under contracts with varying
    terms, depending on the location of the asset.

    BHP OPERATING ASSETS

    Gulf of Mexico, United States

    BHP operates two fields in the Gulf of Mexico – Shenzi (44 per cent interest) and
    Neptune (35 per cent interest).

    They hold non-operating interests in two other fields –Atlantis (44 per cent interest),
    and Mad Dog (23.9 per cent interest).

    All of BHP’s producing fields are located between 155 and 210 kilometres offshore
    from the US state of Louisiana.

    Onshore US, United States

    BHP holds more than 580,000 net acres in three prolific US shale areas –
    Eagle Ford, Permian and Haynesville – where they produce oil, condensate, gas and NGLs.

    The Black Hawk area of Eagle Ford and the Permian area are two of their largest
    liquids-focused field developments.

    Bass Strait, Australia

    In 1965, BHP along with our 50-50 joint venture partner and operator, Esso Australia
    (a subsidiary of ExxonMobil), through the Gippsland Basin joint venture,
    participated in the original discovery of hydrocarbons.

    They have produced oil and gas from the Bass Strait over the past 40 years.

    The Bass Strait operations are located between 25 and 80 kilometres off the southeastern
    the coast of Australia recently, the Kipper gas field under the Kipper Unit Joint Venture
    (also operated by Esso Australia) has brought online additional gas and liquids
    production that is processed via the existing Gippsland Basin Joint Venture facilities.

    North West Shelf, Australia

    BHP is a joint venture participant in the North West Shelf Project, located
    approximately 125 kilometres northwest of Dampier in Western Australia.

    Pyrenees, Australia

    BHP operates six oil fields in the Pyrenees which are located offshore approximately
    23 kilometres northwest of Northwest Cape, Western Australia. They had an effective
    62 per cent interest in the fields as at 30 June 2016, based on inception-to-date
    production from two permits in which they have interests of 71.43 per cent
    and 40 per cent, respectively.

    Macedon, Australia

    We are the operator of Macedon (71.43 per cent interest), an offshore gas field
    located approximately 75 kilometres west of Onslow, Western Australia and an
    onshore gas processing facility, located approximately 17 kilometres southwest of Onslow.

    Minerva, Australia

    BHP are the operator of Minerva (90 per cent interest), a gas field located
    1 kilometres south-southwest of Port Campbell in western Victoria. The operation
    consists of two subsea wells, with gas piped onshore to a processing plant.

    BHP PRODUCTION OPERATIONS

    Trinidad and Tobago

    BHP operates the Greater Angostura field (45 per cent interest in the production sharing contract),
    an integrated oil and gas development located offshore 40 kilometres east of Trinidad.

    Algeria

    BHP Algerian operations comprise an effective 29.5 per cent interest in the ROD Integrated
    Development, which consists of six satellite oil fields that pump oil back to a
    dedicated processing train.

    United Kingdom

    BHP holds a 16 per cent non-operating interest in the Bruce oil and gas field in the North Sea
    and a 31.83 per cent non-operating interest in the Keith oil and gas field, a subsea tie-back.
    Operatorship of the Keith field was transferred to BP on 31 July 2015.

    BHP LEADERSHIP

    BHP President of Petroleum Operations is Steve Pastor.
    Watch Steve’s comments on investment and value in the oil and gas sector.
    BHP

    BHP, Petroleum Operations President: Steve Pastor

    BHP THE NEW PLAYER OFFSHORE NEWFOUNDLAND

    Record bids for exploration licenses offshore have been received as a result of the most recent calls for bids 2018, in the Eastern Newfoundland Region and Jeanne d’Arc Regions, both located in the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Area. In total, there was a record cumulative total of $1.38 billion in bids and a record single bid of $621 million from BHP Billiton Petroleum in the Eastern Newfoundland region.

    In less than 7 per cent of the province’s offshore, there is a combined resource potential of 49.2 billion barrels of oil and 193.8 trillion cubic feet of gas. There have been eight new entrants in the past two years and $3.9 billion in recent exploration work commitments.

    BHP was successful in its bids to acquire a 100% participating interest in, and operatorship of, two exploration licences for blocks 8 and 12 in the offshore Orphan Basin in Eastern Canada.

    Steve Pastor, BHP President Operations Petroleum, said the successful bids are an exciting opportunity for BHP to explore for world-class conventional oil assets as an early mover in this prospective region. “This frontier opportunity has large oil resource potential which we identified through our Global Petroleum Endowment Study in 2016 and is in a low-risk country, with competitive fiscal terms,” Mr Pastor said. “This opportunity delivers on our exploration focus in conventional petroleum and will leverage our global deep-water development and operational expertise.”

    BHP’s aggregate bid amount of US$625 million covers the drilling and seismic work required by the exploration work programs under the licence agreements over the six-year term. BHP’s minimum commitment under the licence agreements is for US$157 million.

    Should BHP decide to progress the exploration program beyond this initial phase, a decision in relation to further capital expenditure to drill the first appraisal well is expected to be made in FY2022.

    BHP’s initial planned capital expenditure on the exploration work programs for blocks 8 and 12 is US$140 million up to FY2021 and is within BHP’s current exploration budget.

    Subject to satisfaction of conditions outlined by the Canada Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board, it is anticipated that the licence agreements would be issued in December 2018 and would be effective in January 2019.

    BHP Offshore Newfoundland

    BHP was successful in its bids to acquire a 100% participating interest in, and operatorship of, two exploration licences for blocks 8 and 12 in the offshore Orphan Basin in Eastern Canada.

    Sources, Text, Graphics, Images:
    The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
    BHP.com
    ondemand.ceraweek.com

     

    Tina Olivero

    30 years ago, Tina Olivero looked into the future and saw an opportunity to make a difference for her province and people. That difference came in the form of the oil and gas sector. Six years before there was even a drop of oil brought to the shores of Newfoundland, she founded The Oil and Gas Magazine (THE OGM) from a back room in her home on Signal Hill Road, in St. John’s, Newfoundland. A single mother, no financing, no previous journalism or oil and gas experience, she forged ahead, with a creative vision and one heck of a heaping dose of sheer determination. With her pioneering spirit, Ms. Olivero developed a magazine that would educate, inspire, motivate and entertain oil and gas readers around the world — She prides herself in marketing and promoting our province and resources in unprecedented ways. The OGM is a magazine that focuses on our projects, our people, our opportunities and ultimately becomes the bridge to new energy outcomes and a sustainable new energy world. Now diversifying into the communications realms, a natural progression from the Magazine, The OGM now offers an entirely new division - Oil & Gas Media. Today, The Oil and Gas Magazine is a global phenomenon that operates not only in Newfoundland, but also in Calgary and is read by oil and gas enthusiasts in Norway, Aberdeen, across the US and as far reaching as Abu Dhabi, in the Middle East. Believing that Energy is everyone’s business, Ms. Olivero has combined energy + culture to embrace the worlds commitment to a balance of work and home life as well as fostering a foundation for health and well being. In this era of growth and development business and lifestyle are an eloquent mix, there is no beginning or end. Partnering with over 90 oil and gas exhibitions and conferences around the world, Ms. Olivero's role as a Global Visionary is to embrace communication in a way that fosters oil and gas business and industry growth in new and creative ways.

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