relation: https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/13910/ title: Understanding exploration, appraisal and production stages creator: Ganat, T.A.-A.O. description: Exploration is a costly and risky operation as the expenditure associated are generally valued at millions of dollars and every two out of three wells, on average, contain no shows of hydrocarbons. Consequently, the exploration companies need to drill more wells in one area to find an oil or gas discovery, and this might take more years. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. publisher: Springer date: 2020 type: Article type: PeerReviewed identifier: Ganat, T.A.-A.O. (2020) Understanding exploration, appraisal and production stages. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. pp. 21-28. ISSN 2191530X relation: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85083957579&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-030-45250-6_3&partnerID=40&md5=b54a01e51cd2ae1ca07698f1d0191447 relation: 10.1007/978-3-030-45250-6₃ identifier: 10.1007/978-3-030-45250-6₃