{"id":176300,"date":"2024-08-01T16:03:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T20:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/noticias\/drill-oil-well-and-deep-gas-drilling\/"},"modified":"2024-08-01T16:05:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T20:05:23","slug":"drill-oil-well-and-deep-gas-drilling","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/drill-oil-well-and-deep-gas-drilling\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to drill world’s deepest offshore oil and gas well offshore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The oil and gas oil and gas<\/a><\/strong> is moving towards an unprecedented challenge, with plans to drill the world’s deepest oil and gas well in Colombian waters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

Occidental Petroleum Corp.\nand Ecopetrol SA will lead this initiative, which will begin with the drilling of the Komodo-1 well <\/strong>in the country’s Caribbean waters before the end of the year.\nWith a depth of close to 3,900 meters (about 13,000 feet), this exploration will surpass the current record set in Angola<\/a><\/strong>marking a new chapter in offshore exploration. offshore exploration<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n

Colombia in the race for ultra-deep oil and gas<\/h2>\n\n

In the global context, the oil and gas oil and gas industry<\/a><\/strong> is redirecting its focus to the deep offshore, driven by the slowdown in production from shale fields in North America.<\/p>\n\n

According to SLB, the world’s leading provider of oilfield services, more than $100 billion in commitments<\/strong> are projected for offshore projects between 2024 and 2025<\/strong>.\nThis trend reflects a resurgence in deepwater exploration, driven by the increasing demand for energy<\/a><\/strong> and the need to diversify sources of supply. <\/p>\n\n

It is important to mention that technology plays a crucial role in this effort.\n Exploration of the<\/strong> Komodo-1 well<\/strong> has been facilitated by advances in marine seismic technology, which allow exploration at greater depths and with greater precision.\nElsa Jaimes, head of offshore operations for Ecopetrol<\/a><\/strong>Elsa Jaimes, head of offshore operations for Ecopetrol, stresses that Colombia is taking advantage of these innovations to explore its offshore potential, especially as some onshore reserves are depleted. <\/p>\n\n

Interest in deepwater exploration is not new, but it has gained momentum in the last decade, after a period of expansion followed by downturns in oil markets in 2014 and 2016.\nThis year, more than 40 wells<\/strong> are expected to be drilled in ultra-deepwater<\/strong> worldwide, which would mark 2024 as a record year for offshore drilling activity. <\/p>\n\n

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Source: worldoil<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Photo: Shutterstock<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The depth of the Komodo-1 well will be equivalent to the height of 10 Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9014,"featured_media":176210,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13026,13036],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-176300","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-energy","categoria_noticias-oil-and-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/176300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/176300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=176300"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=176300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}