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AMIRA and our industry partners hold long-standing refining expertise, having successfully delivered refining projects throughout the world — from conceptual, technical, and economic studies to revamps, expansions, and world-scale new builds. Our global engineering partner network lets us mobilize large teams quickly to meet the most demanding schedules.
We deliver high-quality, cost-effective refining solutions across the full project lifecycle. AMIRA has successfully completed refining engagements that range from conceptual, technical, and economic studies through revamps and expansions to world-scale new builds. Coupled with our global network of engineering partners, this lets us mobilize large teams very quickly to meet the most demanding schedules.
Our industry partners have established their own training facility — an International Well Control Forum (IWCF) Assessment Center where they run IWCF-certified Well Control courses, IADC-certified RigPass courses, and Enform-certified H2S Alive courses (formerly PITS). The school also delivers courses for roughnecks, floormen, derrickmen, assistant drillers, drillers, mud operators, and other oil-field personnel.
The most important policy statements we maintain are the Quality Management System Policy, the Health and Safety Policy, and the Environmental Policy — together providing compliance integrity within appropriate regulatory frameworks against the specifications required by the client and the applicable codes and standards for the equipment or deliverable being produced. Certification of equipment is performed by the chosen or appropriate certifying authority, covering quality assurance across every element of the delivery process.
AMIRA and our industry partners provide, apply, and manage the proper planning and reporting of every project — from contract award to hand-over to operations — using a range of planning tools and the practices below.
Our team of experts is available to evaluate positional oil blocks and translate them into commercially viable investment opportunities. Once promising producing properties are selected, we generate the funding required to undertake the three stages of Exploration, Development, and Production.
Exploration searches underground for oil and gas discovery and evaluates each find. After a licensed block is acquired, we conduct terrestrial geological surveys, aerial photography, satellite imaging, gravity / magnetic surveys, and seismic surveys before any drilling decision. Once oil or gas is confirmed by an exploration well, an appraisal well evaluates the extent of the discovery — including 2D and 3D seismic data — to substantiate the technical and commercial potential.
Once a field is judged commercially developable, we design and construct oil and gas processing, pipelines, storage and offloading facilities, and drill production wells. For large gas fields we evaluate whether LNG (liquefied natural gas) is the right development option — LNG requires large-scale liquefaction plants and exporting facilities, so securing long-term customers must run in parallel. For extra-heavy oil like Canadian oilsands, we may build an upgrader (reforming device) to convert low-grade heavy oil to high-grade light oil.
Crude oil and natural gas production starts through the facilities built in the development stage, following trial operations. Because subsurface reserves decline as production continues, securing new licensed blocks is essential to ensure future discoveries.
Oil reserves are primarily a measure of geological risk — the probability of oil existing and being producible under current economic conditions using current technology. The three categories generally used are proven, probable, and possible reserves.
Oil and gas reserves are the main asset of an oil company — booking is the process by which they are added to the balance sheet, per rules developed by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). Reserves for any company listed on the New York Stock Exchange must be stated to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; in many cases reported reserves are audited by external geologists, although this is not a legal requirement. The SEC rejects the probability concept and prohibits companies from mentioning probable and possible reserves in their filings, so official estimates of proven reserves will always be understated against what companies believe actually exists. For practical purposes companies use proven plus probable (2P), and for long-term planning they look primarily at possible reserves. Other countries maintain their own authorities — Russia's State Commission on Mineral Reserves (GKZ), for example — to which operators must report.
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