YEAR

2010

2020

2030

Onshore all wells (number drilled in year)

NORTH AMERICA

51,704

14,301

42,730

CENTRAL AMERICA

1,001

167

338

SOUTH AMERICA

3,566

1,175

2,326

NW EUROPE

101

21

28

SOUTHERN EUROPE

148

56

98

EASTERN EUROPE

7,033

8,989

6,921

N AND NW AFRICA

1,032

465

503

WEST AFRICA

80

62

126

S AND E AFRICA

171

62

86

ARABIA AND PERSIA

1,662

1,987

2,703

MEDITERRANEAN

389

136

162

CENTRAL ASIA

1,179

963

1,005

NORTH ASIA

23,282

17,898

24,077

SOUTH ASIA

561

440

539

SOUTHEAST ASIA

937

513

487

AUSTRALASIA

98

108

148

GLOBAL

92,944

47,343

82,279

As collated and forecast by globalshift.co.uk

YEAR

2010

2020

2030

Offshore all wells (number drilled in year)

NORTH AMERICA

257

131

184

CENTRAL AMERICA

63

62

73

SOUTH AMERICA

294

146

283

NW EUROPE

406

265

300

SOUTHERN EUROPE

20

13

14

EASTERN EUROPE

32

46

46

N AND NW AFRICA

111

48

125

WEST AFRICA

281

201

290

S AND E AFRICA

15

27

56

ARABIA AND PERSIA

217

313

432

MEDITERRANEAN

10

17

81

CENTRAL ASIA

79

60

100

NORTH ASIA

344

321

483

SOUTH ASIA

114

87

124

SOUTHEAST ASIA

835

615

679

AUSTRALASIA

124

26

98

GLOBAL

3,202

2,378

3,369

As collated and forecast by globalshift.co.uk

MILESTONES

Drilled wells (on and offshore)

ONSHORE (CUMULATIVE) DRILLED WELL NUMBERS PASS:

200,000 in 1934 (after approx. 75 years)

1 mm in 1956 (after 22 years)

2 mm in 1976 (after 20 years)

3 mm in 1988 (after 12 years)

4 mm in 2005 (after 17 years)

5 mm in 2015 (after 10 years)

6 mm in 2030*

ONSHORE WELLS DRILLED BY 2050

Cumulative at 7.7 mm*

ONSHORE WELLS AT A MAXIMUM:

In 1981 at 112,558 wells in that year

FIRST WELL DETACHED FROM LAND:

1891 USA (drilled in a man-made water reservoir at Grand Lake St Mary’s, Ohio)

FIRST WELL IN MARINE WATERS:

1896 USA (drilled in the Pacific from a pier off Summerland, California)

FIRST OFFSHORE (AS DEFINED) WELL:

1925 Azerbaijan

1937 USA

1947 USA (Kermac-16 well drilled by Kerr McGee ‘out of sight of land’, 17 kms from the coast, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana)

FIRST WELL IN >500m WATER:

1974 Morocco, Mauritania and Gabon

FIRST WELL IN >1000m WATER:

1976 Thailand and the Philippines

FIRST WELL IN >2000m WATER:

1996 USA

1999 Brazil

FIRST WELL IN >3000m WATER:

2013 India

OFFSHORE (CUMULATIVE) DRILLED WELL NUMBERS PASS:

10,000 in 1967 (after 42 years)

50,000 in 1983 (after 16 years)

90,000 in 1997 (after 14 years)

130,000 in 2008 (after 11 years)

170,000 in 2022 (after 14 years)

210,000 in 2034*

OFFSHORE WELLS DRILLED BY 2050

Cumulative at 265,963*

OFFSHORE WELLS AT A MAXIMUM:

In 1984 at 3,960 wells in that year

As collated and forecast by globalshift.co.uk