{"id":34715,"date":"2018-06-03T14:12:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T19:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34715"},"modified":"2018-06-03T14:12:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T19:12:30","slug":"peak-oil-in-venezuela-el-furrial-oil-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34715","title":{"rendered":"Peak oil in Venezuela: El Furrial oil field"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peak oil in Venezuela: El Furrial oil field<\/a><\/h3>\n

We see the impact of the conventional oil peak in Venezuela. As an example let\u2019s look at the El-Furrial field.<\/p>\n

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\"Autopista-Caracas\"<\/p>\n

Fig 1: Not La-Hora-Zero (yet) but low voter turn-out for the May 20 Maduro election
\nhttp:\/\/800noticias.com\/foto-caracas-desolada-este-domingo-en-pleno-proceso-electoral<\/a>https:\/\/twitter.com\/eutrafico<\/a><\/p>\n

Location<\/h4>\n

Where is El Furrial?<\/p>\n

It is located 30 km west of the capital Maturin of the State of Monogas (named after a 19th century president, population 1 million) in the North East corner of Venezuela.<\/p>\n

\"Furrial_Maturin_Monagas\"<\/p>\n

Fig 2: Location of El Furrial<\/p>\n

Geology<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\"East_Venezuela\"<\/p>\n

Fig 3: Geological setting
\nhttp:\/\/www.searchanddiscovery.com\/documents\/2009\/10202chatellier\/poster<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Furrial-trend_map_3Dview_2009\"<\/p>\n

Fig 4: Map and 3D view of 3 fields<\/p>\n

Exploration on the northern flank of the East Venezuela basin started in 1978. In 1986, discovery well FUL-1 penetrated 276 m of net oil sandstone and produced up to 7300 bbl of 26\u00b0 API oil per day. El Furrial turned out to be a giant oil field (6\u00d714 km at 14,000 ft) and 4 years later in 1990 reserves were estimated at 1.2 Gb<\/a><\/p>\n

In 1999 PDVSA estimated following production profile for the 3 neighbouring fields of El Furrial, Santa Barbara and Carito with a peak around 2006<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peak oil in Venezuela: El Furrial oil field We see the impact of the conventional oil peak in Venezuela. As an example let\u2019s look at the El-Furrial field. Fig 1: Not La-Hora-Zero (yet) but low voter turn-out for the May 20 Maduro election http:\/\/800noticias.com\/foto-caracas-desolada-este-domingo-en-pleno-proceso-electoralhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/eutrafico Location Where is El Furrial? It is located 30 km west […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6292,20329,617,851],"class_list":["post-34715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-crude-oil-peak","tag-el-furrial-oil-field","tag-peak-oil","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34716,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34715\/revisions\/34716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}