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The oil and gas value chain is broadly divided into two segments.
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Upstream for the discovery and production of crude oil and natural gas, and downstream for refinement and sales of the end products.
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Each is a big industry of its own.
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Due to the complexity of each segment, most companies focus on one, though major oil and gas companies are fully integrated across the value chain.
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Let's start with upstream.
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The world has a surface area of 200 million square miles.
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How can oil companies know where oil and gas reserves are?
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It starts with the exploration phase.
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Explorations can be onshore or offshore, and the objective here is not to find oil or gas,
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but to narrow down the search area by identifying potential reservoirs that might host oil and gas.
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Have you ever seen someone selecting a watermelon by tapping on it
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and listening for a hollow sound sound to see how ripe it is, oil and gas exploration process is similar to that, just more expensive.
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A lot more expensive.
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The exploratory process starts with seismic surveys of basins to scan below the surface and identify potential reservoir targets.
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Seismic surveys use sound waves, akin to the watermelon tapping and listening method, to create images of subsurface rock layers.
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The sound waves, generated by a loud bang, like the detonation of dynamite in a hole dug in the ground or from an air gun in the water,
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travel through the Earth and are partially reflected by each rock boundary back to the surface.
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Geophones placed at the surface record the reflections,
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which are then digitized and analyzed by geophysicists to identify potential rock formations that could lead to oil and gas accumulations.
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In addition to seismic surveys, companies also conduct regional studies to see if there are discovered reserves in neighboring countries with similar geographies.
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This would increase the probability of discovering reserves in the basin under exploration.
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Based on the results of seismic surveys and regional studies, companies will decide to proceed to drilling exploratory wells, which are typically 5 inches wide,
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with a depth ranging from a few hundred feet to 20,000 feet.
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Next, samples are collected from the drilled wells and tested, in attempts to confirm the presence of a reservoir and its properties in terms of volume and mobility,
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that is, how easily the reservoir will flow.
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Tests are used to create 3D models of the reservoir and to identify the depth of different layers of gas, oil, and water.
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This is an important step because drilling to extract oil and gas is a delicate operation, and mistakes can be economically catastrophic.
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Even with the most advanced tests and models, exploration is always a risky bet.
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companies can spend millions drilling to find an empty well or wells that are not commercially recoverable with existing technologies.
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With modern seismic survey technologies the chances of finding oil or gas is less than 20 percent.
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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント
このC1レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「Inside the Upstream Process: How Oil & Gas Is Found」を教材にしています。 繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：oil, gas, companies, seismic, reservoir。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が30文、単語が487語あります。 音声の長さは2:57です。 話す速さは1分あたり約165語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。 英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は77%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。
この動画の重要語彙
動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。
| 単語 | 発音 | 意味 |
|---|---|---|
| reservoir 名詞 | /ˈɹɛz.ə(ɹ).vwɑɹ/ | 貯水池 |
| drill 名詞 | /dɹɪl/ | ドリル |
| upstream 形容詞 | /ʌpˈstɹiːm/ | 川上 |
| basin 名詞 | /ˈbeɪsɪn/ | 盥 |
| detonation 名詞 | /dɛtəˈneɪʃən/ | 爆轟 |
| digitize 動詞 | /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtaɪz/ | 電子化する, デジタル化する |
| refinement 名詞 | /ɹəˈfaɪnmənt/ | みやび |
| dynamite 名詞 | /ˈdaɪ.nəˌmaɪt/ | ダイナマイト |
| downstream 形容詞 | /ˌdaʊnˈstɹiːm/ | 下流 |
| ripe 形容詞 | /ɹaɪp/ | 熟した |
| analyze 動詞 | /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/ | 分析する |
| offshore 形容詞 | /ɒfˈʃɔː(ɹ)/ | オフショア, 海外での |
| risky 形容詞 | /ˈɹɪski/ | 危険な |
| hollow 形容詞 | /ˈhɑloʊ/ | 空っぽ, くぼんだ |
| geography 名詞 | /d͡ʒiˈɑɡɹəfi/ | 地理学 |
注意したい発音
- 「sh」と「zh」の音: detonation /dɛtəˈneɪʃən/, onshore /ˈɒnʃɔː/, accumulation /əˌkjuːm.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, offshore /ɒfˈʃɔː(ɹ)/
- 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: exploratory /ɛkˈsplɒɹ.ə.tə.ɹi/, detonation /dɛtəˈneɪʃən/, recoverable /ɹɪˈkʌvɚəb(ə)l/, catastrophic /ˌkætəˈstɹɑfɪk/, accumulation /əˌkjuːm.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
日本語話者が苦手な音：
- /r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: drill /dɹɪl/, exploratory /ɛkˈsplɒɹ.ə.tə.ɹi/, recoverable /ɹɪˈkʌvɚəb(ə)l/, broadly /ˈbɹɔːdli/, probability /ˌpɹɑ.bəˈbɪl.ə.ti/
- /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: reservoir /ˈɹɛz.ə(ɹ).vwɑɹ/, recoverable /ɹɪˈkʌvɚəb(ə)l/
- /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: refinement /ɹəˈfaɪnmənt/, catastrophic /ˌkætəˈstɹɑfɪk/, offshore /ɒfˈʃɔː(ɹ)/, geography /d͡ʒiˈɑɡɹəfi/
この動画での練習方法
- まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
- まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
- 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。reservoir, drill, upstreamなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。