{
  "source": "https://oilcyprus.com/benchmarks",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "OilCyprus (oilcyprus.com)",
  "computedAt": "1970-01-01",
  "note": "Derived measures computed from the OilCyprus field, well and milestone records. Not quoted from any operator or government release.",
  "benchmarks": {
    "timeToDecision": {
      "method": "Discovery year from the field record; FID and start-up years from the milestones tracker, matched to the field each milestone links to. Where an operator names a window, its midpoint year is used. Fields with no dated FID are omitted from the summary.",
      "unit": "years",
      "fields": [
        {
          "field": "Aphrodite",
          "depositId": "aphrodite",
          "discoveryYear": 2011,
          "fidWindow": "Late 2026 – 2027",
          "yearsToFid": 16,
          "firstGasWindow": "~2030–31",
          "yearsToFirstGas": 19
        },
        {
          "field": "Glaucus",
          "depositId": "glaucus",
          "discoveryYear": 2019,
          "fidWindow": "~2029",
          "yearsToFid": 10,
          "firstGasWindow": "~2033",
          "yearsToFirstGas": 14
        },
        {
          "field": "Cronos",
          "depositId": "cronos",
          "discoveryYear": 2022,
          "fidWindow": "2027",
          "yearsToFid": 5,
          "firstGasWindow": "2028",
          "yearsToFirstGas": 6
        }
      ]
    },
    "strikeRateByEra": {
      "method": "Exploration wells only; appraisal wells re-drill a field already found. The era boundary is the spud date of the last dry hole on record, not a chosen date.",
      "boundary": {
        "well": "Delphyne-1",
        "spudDate": "2018-12-02"
      },
      "caveat": "A correlation across a small sample, not a causal claim: later wells also benefited from what the earlier ones learned.",
      "eras": [
        {
          "label": "Through the last dry hole",
          "from": 2011,
          "to": 2018,
          "explorationWells": 6,
          "discoveries": 2,
          "dry": 3,
          "shows": 1,
          "avgWaterDepthM": 1789,
          "strikeRatePct": 33
        },
        {
          "label": "Since the last dry hole",
          "from": 2019,
          "to": 2025,
          "explorationWells": 5,
          "discoveries": 4,
          "dry": 0,
          "shows": 1,
          "avgWaterDepthM": 2104,
          "strikeRatePct": 80
        }
      ]
    },
    "drillingCadence": {
      "method": "Wells counted by spud year, exploration and appraisal together, because a rig year is a rig year regardless of what it was drilling.",
      "years": [
        {
          "year": 2011,
          "wells": 1
        },
        {
          "year": 2012,
          "wells": 0
        },
        {
          "year": 2013,
          "wells": 1
        },
        {
          "year": 2014,
          "wells": 1
        },
        {
          "year": 2015,
          "wells": 1
        },
        {
          "year": 2016,
          "wells": 0
        },
        {
          "year": 2017,
          "wells": 2
        },
        {
          "year": 2018,
          "wells": 1
        },
        {
          "year": 2019,
          "wells": 1
        },
        {
          "year": 2020,
          "wells": 0
        },
        {
          "year": 2021,
          "wells": 1
        },
        {
          "year": 2022,
          "wells": 2
        },
        {
          "year": 2023,
          "wells": 2
        },
        {
          "year": 2024,
          "wells": 0
        },
        {
          "year": 2025,
          "wells": 2
        }
      ],
      "fallowYears": [
        2012,
        2016,
        2020,
        2024
      ],
      "longestGapBetweenDiscoveries": {
        "fromYear": 2011,
        "toYear": 2017,
        "gapYears": 6,
        "name": "Onesiphoros West",
        "depositId": "onesiphoros"
      },
      "discoveryIntervals": [
        {
          "fromYear": 2011,
          "toYear": 2017,
          "gapYears": 6,
          "name": "Onesiphoros West",
          "depositId": "onesiphoros"
        },
        {
          "fromYear": 2017,
          "toYear": 2018,
          "gapYears": 1,
          "name": "Calypso",
          "depositId": "calypso"
        },
        {
          "fromYear": 2018,
          "toYear": 2019,
          "gapYears": 1,
          "name": "Glaucus",
          "depositId": "glaucus"
        },
        {
          "fromYear": 2019,
          "toYear": 2022,
          "gapYears": 3,
          "name": "Cronos",
          "depositId": "cronos"
        },
        {
          "fromYear": 2022,
          "toYear": 2022,
          "gapYears": 0,
          "name": "Zeus",
          "depositId": "zeus"
        },
        {
          "fromYear": 2022,
          "toYear": 2025,
          "gapYears": 3,
          "name": "Pegasus",
          "depositId": "pegasus"
        }
      ]
    },
    "resourceConcentration": {
      "method": "A ratio of two published figures in different reporting categories — one operator's combined estimate over the government's aggregate.",
      "caveat": "Not a physical fraction of the resource. Read it as the share of the quoted headline attributable to one block.",
      "nationalHeadlineTcf": {
        "low": 17,
        "high": 18,
        "asOf": "September 2025"
      },
      "label": "Glaucus + Pegasus",
      "ids": [
        "glaucus",
        "pegasus"
      ],
      "lowTcf": 7,
      "highTcf": 9,
      "shareOfHeadlineLowPct": 39,
      "shareOfHeadlineHighPct": 53,
      "category": "Combined hub estimate"
    }
  }
}