"Schiehallion field, United Kingdom, Commercial Asset Valuation and Forecast to 2017" Published

Aug. 26, 2010 - PRLog -- The Schiehallion oilfield is a deepwater offshore oil field located 175 Kilometers west of the Shetland Islands in North Atlantic Ocean. BP Exploration Limited is the operator of the field. The field was discovered in 1993. The field lies in the blocks of 204/20, 204/25 in the water depth of 400 meters.

Oil is produced through 22 subsea production and 19 injection wells connected to a "floating, production, storage and offloading" (FPSO) vessel, and exported to market via shuttle tanker "Loch Rannoch".

The field has started its first commercial production in July 1998. BP Exploration is the operator of the field and owns 3.0% equity in the field. The other equity partners include Brit oil Public Limited Company(30.30%),Shell (UK) Ltd(33.30%), Hess Limited (15.66%), Murphy Petroleum Limited(5.88%), Stat oil (UK) limited (5.88%) and OMV(UK) Ltd.(5.88%).

The field has produced around 5.7 million barrels of Crude Oil in 2009. The total recoverable reserves of the field are around 425 million barrels of crude oil. The total remaining reserves as of December 2009 is around 89 million barrels of crude oil. Schiehallion field is expected to produce till 2017.

The life of Schiehallion field is expected to be around 20 years with complete abandonment during 2017. The field is expected to generate $7.08 billion in revenues (undiscounted) during its remaining life (starting 1/1/2010) and is expected to yield an IRR of around 27.71%.

Scope

* The report provides detailed information on oil and gas production, infrastructure, reserves, geology, operator and equity partners and the latest fiscal terms applicable to the asset and provides its fair value (Remaining Net Present Value) based on remaining reserves, forecast production, capital and operational costs, fiscal regime and commodity prices.
* The report also provides additional valuation parameters like Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Profitability Index (PI), Pay Back (discounted and undiscounted), Entitlement Production (EP) and Working Interest (WI) to enhance your decision making process.
* This report provides detailed sensitivity analysis of the remaining NPV with changes in the commodity prices, discount rate, production and key fiscal terms.
* Detailed cash flows over the life of the asset are included in the report. These cash flows cover a wide range of calculations related to various payments to the government/licensing authority.
* Interactive Excel models can be used to derive custom valuations, sensitivities and cash flows based on the specific inputs by the user in the model. These custom inputs vary from production data, cost information, price information and fiscal terms information.

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Partial Table of Contents:

1 Table of contents 2
1.1 List of Tables 4
1.2 List of Figures 4
2 Schiehallion field, United Kingdom, Introduction 5
3 Schiehallion field, United kingdom, Geology and Formation 6
4 Schiehallion field, United kingdom, Equity Partners 7
5 Schiehallion field, United kingdom , Crude Oil Reserves 8
6 Schiehallion field,  United Kingdom, Key Fiscal Terms 9
6.1 Contract Type 9
6.2 Royalty 9
6.3 Rentals 9
6.4 Taxation 9
6.5 Petroleum Revenue Tax (PRT) 9
7 Schiehallion field, United kingdom, Infrastructure 10
7.1 Upstream Infrastructure 10
7.1.1 The Schiehallion Vessel (FPSO) 10
7.2 Midstream Infrastructure 11
7.2.1 Schiehallion Export System (Loch Rannoch) 11
8 Schiehallion field, United kingdom, Development Plan, Investment and Expenditure 12
9 Schiehallion field, United Kingdom, Crude Oil Production 13
10 Schiehallion field, United Kingdom, Field Economics 14
10.1 Schiehallion field, United Kingdom,Economic Assumptions 14
10.1.1 Forecast Commodity Prices 14
10.1.2 Inflation 14
10.1.3 Discount Rate and Representation of Cash Flows 14
10.1.4 Sensitivity 14
10.1.5 Access to the Economic Model 14
10.2 Schiehallion field, United Kingdom, Cash Flow Analysis 15
10.3 Schiehallion field, United Kingdom, Remaining PV Sensitivity Analysis 16
10.3.1 Remaining NPV Sensitivity to Discount Rates 16
10.3.2 Remaining NPV Sensitivity to Change in Commodity Prices and Production 17
10.3.3 Remaining NPV Sensitivity to Income Tax and Production Rate 18
11 Schiehallion field, United Kingdom, Summary Cash Flows 19
11.1 Schiehallion field, United Kingdom, Front End Load Due To Fiscal Policy 20
11.2 Schiehallion field, United Kingdom, Tax Liability 21
12 Appendix 22
12.1 Methodology 22
12.2 Coverage 22
12.3 Secondary Research 22
12.4 Primary Research 22
12.5 E&P Forecasts 23
12.6 Capital Costs 23
12.7 Exploration and Appraisal (E&A) Costs 23
12.8 Operating Costs 23
12.9 Expert Panel Validation 24
12.10 About GlobalData
12.11 Contact Us
12.12 Disclaimer

1.1 List of Tables

Table 1: Schiehallion field, United kingdom, Key Asset Data, 2010 5
Table 2:  Schiehallion field , United Kingdom, Equity Partners and Their Equity Stakes, 2010 7
Table 3: Schiehallion field, United Kingdom, Field  Reserves, January 2010 8

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