A new member-responsive Forum that provides in-depth, integrated data, analysis, and insight on global and regional E&P trends and mission-critical topics to enhance E&P strategic and operational decision making.

Introduction

Oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) companies face mounting strategic and operational challenges as they compete to discover and develop upstream opportunities while managing their existing portfolios. To succeed they must have a strong grasp of the current trends in E&P and in-depth knowledge of the associated belowground factors (reserves, decline rates, reservoir recovery, productive capacity, and unconventional resources) of the country or basin of interest. E&P companies that can harness the value of insightful and timely analysis of high-quality data greatly enhance their strategic and operational decision-making potential.

In response to this pressing need, IHS CERA has launched the E&P Trends Forum (EPTF) to provide clients with in-depth, integrated analysis and insight on global and regional E&P trends and mission-critical topics. Based on a framework that addresses today’s key E&P issues, E&P Trends Forum examines, correlates, and answers critical E&P questions.

Value Proposition

IHS CERA’s E&P Trends Forum is a member-responsive Industry Forum that delivers original research and analyses and facilitates presentation and discussion of the critical E&P questions facing IHS CERA’s clients. Based on an architecture of Core Topics and a foundation of extensive and comprehensive IHS CERA data, IHS CERA’s first-order analysis is applied to develop Data Sets, Reports, and Briefings that are presented and discussed at Member Workshops. E&P Trends Forum helps members fill the space between data and strategy and delivers a value proposition that reinforces their in-house capabilities.

Service Benefits

IHS CERA’s E&P Trends Forum enhances both the business-unit performance and the strategic functions of member companies. E&P Trends Forum offers regional and global insights that help business unit leaders gain a better understanding of the larger context for their core business. It also provides strategy and functional managers with the insights they need to answer critical questions more quickly and reliably. Members of  E&P Trends Forum receive the following benefits:

• E&P Trends Forum helps members save time and resources by focusing on their key E&P issues.
• The E&P Trends Forum research agenda is member responsive: the priority and sequence of the Core Topics are based on member input.
• E&P Trends Forum combines the value of IHS CERA’s global and country-specific knowledge and extensive data sets.
• IHS CERA’s insights enable members to challenge their own analysis and conclusions and to gain a broader and deeper understanding of the scale and complexity of risks at different stages of the asset life cycle.

Deliverables

Membership is on an annual basis. Spring 2010 Research Topics:

Private Reports

• Exploration Trends: Reloading the Barrel.  Future supply is dependent upon the size of remaining resources, access, and the ability of the industry to turn reserves into production. Increased licensing activity and exploration success rates over the past few years provide hints about what the future holds for discovery. The 140 billion barrels of undeveloped discoveries made over the past 20 years provide hints about taking future discoveries to development. Insights into these trends will help us better understand future supply.
• CO₂ Enhanced Oil Recovery: a Win-Win for Sequestration and Oil Supply?   Hopes are high for using enhanced oil recovery (EOR) for sequestering CO₂ from refineries and power plants while also realizing an economic benefit. But is the capacity really there and how much incremental oil can be produced? This report will review global oil and gas fields and EOR projects to determine answers to these questions.

Briefings

• Challenges and Potential of the Arctic Region.  The Arctic’s resource potential combined with global E&P dynamics and rapidly melting sea ice has kept interest in this region high.  However, complex political dynamics, technological challenges, and environmental conditions complicate oil and gas development in each of the Arctic subregions.  This briefing will review these challenges, the size of the potential prize, and recent activity that continues to push back the edges of this frontier.
• Inside IHS CERA’s Outlook for Iraq’s Oil and Gas Productive Capacity. For Iraq 2009 was a banner year toward the revival of the upstream sector. However, more progress is needed to realize its world-class potential. This briefing will examine the results of the recent licensing rounds, other E&P activity, and the latest political and fiscal developments to provide context for IHS CERA’s outlook for Iraq’s productive capacity.

Team

Forum Directors
Leta Smith, IHS CERA Director
Peter Jackson, IHS CERA Senior Director, Oil Industry Activity
Richard Morris, IHS CERA Senior Director, Product Management

Forum Team
James Burkhard, Managing Director of IHS CERA’s Global Oil Group
David Hobbs, IHS CERA Vice President and Managing Director of Global Research
Ken Chew, Vice President, Industry Performance for the Energy Division of IHS Inc.
Samia Razak, IHS CERA Associate Director, Global Oil Supply
Jonathan Craig, IHS CERA Associate, Global Oil Supply
Keith Eastwood, IHS CERA Senior Associate
Simon Wardell, IHS CERA Director