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OIL,
GAS AND COAL EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT
CORPO-PETROL currently has numerous Oil, Gas and Coal business opportunities in the US, Canada, Australia, China, The Caribbean, Colombia, Angola, Venezuela, Guyana, Libya, Russia and Ecuador to obtain oil & gas and Coal exploration rights, the purchasing of existing crude oil, natural gas and coal mining production contracts at discount prices from several important oil, gas and coal companies. In addition, CORPO-PETROL has identified various merger and acquisition opportunities with medium size minority control oil, gas and coal mining companies all with proven recoverable reserves.
The
demand for clean energy is ever-expanding and according
to government and private industry estimates, will
continue unabated for the foreseeable future. In 1998,
the average cost of a domestic barrel of crude oil
at the wellhead was $10.87. In August 2006, the average
wellhead price was $74.17. This equates to a 682%
increase in crude oil prices over the eight-year period.
The average annual increase was over 80%. The table
below illustrates actual historical wellhead prices
for crude produced in the lower 48 states.
Recent History of Domestic (Lower 48)
Crude Oil Prices Per Barrel (Wellhead)
| Year |
Wellhead
Price |
% Change
From Prior Year |
| 1998 |
10.87 |
N/A |
| 1999 |
15.56 |
43.1 |
| 2000 |
26.72 |
71.7 |
| 2001 |
21.84 |
-18.3 |
| 2002 |
22.51 |
3.1 |
| 2003 |
27.56 |
22.4 |
| 2004 |
36.77 |
33.4 |
| 2005 |
50.26 |
36.7 |
| 2006 |
74.17 |
47.6 |
Total Increase
During Time Period |
682.3% |
Current domestic prices are expected to continue
to increase as demand for fuel increases in India
and China
and the rest of the pacific basin, while controls
on output by OPEC nations continue to limit production.
Some experts predict that average crude oil prices
may rise to as high as $90 to $100 per barrel within
the next few years based on current and expected market
conditions. The forecasts by the U.S. Energy Department's
Energy Information Administration in their Annual
Energy Outlook Report of 2004 for 2030 have already
been exceeded. The volatility and unpredictable nature
of the market makes it impossible to accurately predict
where prices will hit in 2030, but what is certain
is that with increasing demand and ever decreasing
supplies, prices must rise over the long term.
Of
course, as market prices rise, return on investment
rises. Already the marketplace has seen record profits
for the petroleum industry in 2005 and 2006. Drilling
and pumping costs will remain relatively flat while
revenues rise.
America's increasing dependency on foreign
oil supplies has placed a renewed interest in developing
domestic crude oil reserves. In addition, political
instabilities in nations that are members of OPEC
make domestic development even more important to assist
in sustaining a continuous supply. As world crude
prices continue to rise, these market conditions make
it economically feasible to develop domestic reserves.
The
U.S. Energy Department's Energy Information Administration
has predicted that the worldwide production capacity
of crude oil will increase from 80 million barrels
per day in 2003, to over 118 million barrels per day
in 2030. U.S.
domestic
production is expected to fall, decreasing from just
under 6 million barrels per day in 2004 to under 5
million barrels per day in 2030. This forecast clearly shows the increasing dependence
on foreign oil imports to cover the expected average
increase in domestic consumption of 1.5% per year
until 2030.
Corpopetrol
Exploration Technology
The
CORPO-PETROL technology detect and quantify
volatile compounds associated with buried natural
resources such as petroleum reservoirs, copper and
gold ore deposits, diamond kimberlite pipes, and to
map and monitor environmental pollution in air, water
and soil gas. This service delivers data, reports
and maps that show the spatial distribution of these
resources and generates value for the customer in
the following ways:
Petroleum
& Mineral Exploration
- Improved exploration success
- Lower finding costs
- Faster reserve generation
Environmental
- Develop an accurate conceptual site model
- Improve monitoring and remediation success, and
- Reduce overall program costs
CORPO-PETROL TECHNOLOGY
The
CORPO-PETROL Module makes the difference. All
three markets rely on similar technology which comprises:
- A signal collection device known as the CORPO-PETROL Module,
which is a passive adsorbent collector that uses proprietary
engineered adsorbents.
- Very sensitive and comprehensive chemical analytical
analysis of the modules comprising Thermal Desorption,
Gas Chromatography, and Mass Spectroscopy (TD/GC/MS)
with an optional sulfur detector.
- Multivariate statistical and chemometric techniques
to analyze the data and, when combined with known
geology, refined to delineate, via maps the spatial
location of these natural resources or environmental
pollution. Volatile compounds as small as ethane (C2)
to as large as Pryrene (C20), in quantities as minute
as a billionth of a gram, can be detected. The passive
adsorbent can collect compounds in all known soil
types such as clay, salt, volcanic rock or water saturated
soils.
COMPETITION
There
is no “in-kind” competition for CORPO-PETROL Surveys in the
exploration market. There are, however, several low
cost, low technology geochemical services, including
direct and indirect options. The direct option uses
active soil gas collection to measure an extremely
limited range of compounds from C1 to C6. The indirect
option also known as microbial, measures the size
of a colony of bacteria which consume a very limited
number of compounds, typically only C4. Companies
are generally disappointed with these lower technology
alternatives. The limited number of compounds results
in poor predictability, poor sensitivity, inability
to work in low permeable soils, and the absence of
multivariate statistical techniques for clear interpretation.
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