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Oil & Gas Conversion Chart (2008)

Abbreviations Industry standard boe


m Thousand Barrels of oil equivalent
mm Million 1 boe 1 Barrel of Oil = 158.987 Litres
b Billion 170mm boe = 1 TCF
t Trillion = 34.9726 Imperial gallons/42 US gallons
k kilo - 10³ = 6,000 Cubic Feet Gas (Oil Search)
M Mega = 10⁶ = 5,700 Cubic Feet Gas (Woodside)
G Giga = 10⁹ = 5,512.58 Cubic Feet Gas (for Santos reserves)
T Tera = 10¹² = 0.1024 Tonnes LNG
P Peta = 10¹⁵ = 1.069 Barrels of Condensate
bbl Barrel = 0.136 Tonnes of Condensate
bpd Barrels Per Day (Liquids) = 1.3986 Barrels LPG
bopd Barrels of Oil Per Day = 0.1182 Tonnes LPG (Cooper Basin)
m bbls Thousand Barrels = 0.1206 Tonnes of LPG (Bass Strait)
mm bbls Million Barrels = 0.1134 Tonnes Propane
boe Barrel of Oil Equivalent = 0.1293 Tonnes Butane
stb Stock Tank Barrel = 0.1908 Tonnes Coal
KL Kilolitre 1 Kilolitre = 6.2898 Barrels
scf Standard Cubic Feet
mscf Thousand Standard Cubic Feet Rates of production/flow
mmscf Million Standard Cubic Feet (10⁶) 1,000 bpd = 50,000 tonnes per year
mmscfd Million Standard Cubic Feet Per Day 100 mmcfd = 36.5 bcf per year
mRT Metres below the rotary table of the drilling rig
bcf Billion Cubic Feet LNG (liquefied natural gas at - 161 degrees Celsius)
bscf Billion Standard Cubic Feet (10⁹) 1 Tonne LNG = 8.9055 boe (Woodside)
tcf Trillion Cubic Feet = 45.9 mcf
scm Standard Cubic Metre = 1,428 cm
Btu British Thermal Unit = 51.7 Mbtu (Delivered)
J Joule 1 Cargo LNG (WPL NWS ships) = 56,000 Tonnes Delivered - (9th ship 62,000)
Gj Gigajoule 10⁹ 1 million tonnes of LNG / year = 3.65 million cubic metres of natural gas per day
TJ Terajoule 10¹² 1mm scm of Domgas/LNG has a heating equivalent of approximately 6,000 bbls of oil
PJ Petajoule 10¹⁵
T Tonne LPG (liquefied petroleum gas [propane & butane])
Kt Thousand Tonnes 1 Tonne LPG = 8.1876 boe (Woodside)
Tpa Tonnes Per Annum 1 Tonne LPG = 8.458 boe (Santos)
Toe Tonne of Oil Equivalent
Other terms Natural gas (primarily methane) assumes heating value of 1000 BTU per cubic foot
ITJ = 172 boe
APPEA Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration
Association = 163.6 boe (Woodside)
API American Petroleum Institute (oil gravity) = 847 mcf (North West Shelf)
AVO Amplitude vs Offset (seismic analysis) = 943 mcf (Cooper Basin)
BOP Blow out preventer = 948 mcf (Surat Basin)
DCQ Daily contract quantity 1 kilojoule = 0.9478 btu
DHI Direct Hydrocarbon Indicator (on seismic) 1PJ = 171,937 boe (Santos)
DST Drill Stem Test 1CF = 1,000 Btu
ESP Electrical submersible pump 1 BCF = 1.09 Pj
Feed Front End Engineering and Design = 0.178428 mm boe
FPSO Floating Production, Storage & Offloading Unit 1BCF = 1.055 Petajoules (Santos& Oil Search)
GOR Gas oil ratio 1 BTU = 1.055 Kj
GWC Gas Water Contact 1 mm Btu = 0.1724 boe (Gulf of Mexico gas)
LOGS Wireline logging tool (electronic, sonic, etc) = 1 mcf
MDQ Minimum Daily Quantity 1 cubic metres of gas = 35.315 cubic feet or 35,315 BTU
NWSGP North West Shelf Gas Project 1 Tonne Ethane = 26,800 cubic feet (Bass Strait)
OOIP Original Oil in Place
OWC Oil water contact Condensate (from wet gas)
PRRT Petroleum Resource Rent Tax 1 Tonne = 8.3 bbls (Woodside)
PSC Production Sharing Contract = 7.35 bbls
RFT Repeat Formation Test 1 BBL Condensate/Naphtha = 0.935 boe (Santos)
TVD True Vertical Depth (of hole while drilling) = 1.0 boe (Woodside)
WTI West Texas Intermediate (US benchmark oil)

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Oil & Gas Conversion Chart (2008)
SPE reserve definitions SEC reserve definitions
Proved (1P) reserves: Proved reserves
Quantities of petroleum, which, by analysis of geoscience and The estimated quantities of crude oil, natural gas and natural gas
engineering data, can be estimated with reasonable certainty to be liquids that geological and engineering data demonstrate with
commercially recoverable, from a given date forward, from known reasonable certainty to be recoverable in future years from known
reservoirs under defined economic conditions, operating methods reservoirs under existing economic and operating conditions.
and government regulations. Probabilistic – at least 90% probability. Economic producibility must be supported by either actual
Deterministic – high degree of confidence. production or conclusive formation test. The SEC allows 3Dseismic
Probable (2P) reserves: data to be used in the deep water Gulf of Mexico where high drilling
Additional reserves which analysis of geoscience and engineering costs prohibit full evaluation of a reservoir section.
data indicate are less likely to be recovered than proved reserves, but
more certain to be recovered than possible reserves. It is equally Contingent reserve definition
likely that actual remaining quantities recovered will be greater than Quantities of hydrocarbon estimated to be potentially recoverable
or less than the sum of the estimated proved plus probable reserves from known accumulations, but are not currently considered to be
(2P). Probabilistic – at least 50% probability that quantities recovered commercially recoverable. Contingent resources may be of a
will equal or exceed the 2P estimate. significant size, but still have constraints to development. These
Possible (3P) reserves: constraints, preventing the booking of reserves, may relate to lack of
Additional reserves which analysis of geoscience and engineering gas marketing arrangements or to technical, environmental or
data suggest are less likely to be recoverable than probable reserves. political barriers that prevent current economic development.
The total quantities ultimately recovered from a project have a low
probability to exceed the sum of provided plus probable plus possible Prospective resources
(3P) reserves. Probabilistic – at least 10% probability that quantities Those quantities of petroleum estimated, as of a given date, to be
recovered will equal or exceed the 3P estimate. potentially recoverable from undiscovered accumulations by
Probabilistic reserve definitions application of future development projects. This class represents a
higher risk than contingent resources as the risk of discovery is also
P90. A probability cut-off of 90% is often used to describe proved added.
reserves. In this case, proved reserves are defined as having a better-
than-90% chance of being produced over the life of the field.
P50. A probability cut-off of 50% is often used to describe probable
reserves. Reserves that have a better-than-50% chance of being
technically and economically producible. These are reserves that are
often referred to as ‘indicated’.
P10. A probability cut-off of 10% is often used to describe possible
reserves. These are reserves that are often described as ‘inferred’.
They have a less-than-50% chance of being technically and
economically producible.

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