OGA 2009 - Biggest Ever!

		Oil and Gas Asia 2009 was the biggest in its history and the most comprehensive oil and gas show in the Asian region. An impressive 21,787 (an increase of 12% from OGA 2007) trade visitors from 57 countries visited OGA 2009 over the 3-day event from 10 - 12 June 2009 at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC). Earning its title as the “Region’s No.1 Oil and Gas Show”, OGA 2009 comprised 1,337 participating companies from 49 countries worldwide and set the record of occupying a total space of 17,000sqm (an increase of 14% from OGA 2007) encompassing 6 exhibition halls in KLCC. OGA 2009’s success was under pinned by the participation of big names like Aker Solutions, Cameron, Delcom, ExxonMobil, Olio Resources, SapuraCrest, Scomi, Shell, Siemens, Sime Darby, Technip, UMW Oil & Gas, Tanjung Offshore and Weatherford among others. A total of 10 Country Group Pavilions participated this time around and they were from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Norway, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States of America, making OGA 2009 truly an international show. OGA 2009 has proven once again its impeccable credentials with many exhibitors and visitors going home satisfied with the results. In fact, almost 90% of the OGA 2009 exhibitors have already requested to rebook space for OGA 2011!

Giant oil and gas fields

The world's 932 giant oil and gas fields are considered those with 500 million barrels of ultimately recoverable oil or gas equivalent.^[1] Geoscientists believe these giants account for 40 percent of the world's petroleum reserves. They are clustered in 27 regions of the world, with the largest clusters in the Persian Gulf and Western Siberian Basin. The past three decades reflect declines in discoveries of giant fields.^[2] The present decade (2000-2010), however, reflects an upturn in discoveries and appears on track to be the third best for discovery of giant oil and gas fields in the 150 year history of modern oil and gas exploration.^[3]

According to analysis led by Paul Mann of the University of Texas' Jackson School of Geosciences, almost all of the 932 giant oil and gas fields cluster within 27 regions, or about 30 percent of Earth's land surface. Since 2003, Mann and colleagues M.K. Horn and Ian Cross have tracked the giants on a map that highlights the tectonic and sedimentary basin maps of the 27 key regions. The map is in the public domain and available as a high-resolution pdf on the Web site of the Jackson School of Geosciences.^[4]

Recent work in tracking giant oil and gas fields follows the earlier efforts of the late exploration geologist Michel T. Halbouty, who tracked trends in giant discoveries from the 1960s to 2004.