eprintid: 13910 rev_number: 2 eprint_status: archive userid: 1 dir: disk0/00/01/39/10 datestamp: 2023-11-10 03:28:28 lastmod: 2023-11-10 03:28:28 status_changed: 2023-11-10 01:52:17 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Ganat, T.A.-A.O. title: Understanding exploration, appraisal and production stages ispublished: pub keywords: Discovery wells; Oil well drilling, Exploration company; Gas discoveries; Production stage, Petroleum prospecting note: cited By 0 abstract: 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. date: 2020 publisher: Springer official_url: 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 id_number: 10.1007/978-3-030-45250-6₃ full_text_status: none publication: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology pagerange: 21-28 refereed: TRUE issn: 2191530X citation: Ganat, T.A.-A.O. (2020) Understanding exploration, appraisal and production stages. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. pp. 21-28. ISSN 2191530X