Petroleum Development Oman LLC has awarded Wood Group ESP, part of the Wood Group, a contract for installation and service of 400 electric submersible pumps for wells in North and South fields. The number is expected to grow to 800 over the 6-year life of the contract. The contract is on a "pay for performance" basis; Wood will own the pumps and be paid for their performance and production efficiency.
Statoil has selected Halliburton Subsea, a unit of Halliburton Co., for a $2 million contract to remove the subsea facilities on Yme field off Norway. Yme's development included a jack-up rig and processing platform, four subsea production wells, one template at Yme Beta East, and a storage/loading STL system. The Halliburton Subsea work scope includes removal of the subsea facilities; dedicated offshore construction vessel Toisa Perseus will be performing the offshore work. Yme field will stop production this spring with contract work scheduled for late this summer.
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. said Fife Unit No. 2 well in Washington County, Tex., flowed 51 MMcfd of gas with 1,510 psi of tubing pressure. The well is part of Anadarko's attempt to produce new reserves from old fields. The Fife well is a confirmation of the nearby Becker No. 1 Georgetown reentry discovery drilled by Anadarko in 2000. Output at Becker No. 1 has dropped from 50 to 25 MMcf/d.
Suncor Energy Inc. shut its oil sands operation in Fort McMurray, Alta., for 8 days to perform maintenance on a unit in its upgrading facility. Suncor still expects to meet its 2001 production target of 130,000 b/d.
Santos Ltd. awarded a $45 million (Aus.), 3-year contract to Expro Group Australia Pty. Ltd. to provide well testing, production support, and cased-hole services in the Cooper-Eromanga basins in South Australia. Work will begin this month.
Petroleum Geo-Services ASA said the re-tooled Ramform Banff production ship has resumed oil production on the Banff field in the UK North Sea. The vessel was removed from the field in September 2000 for a modification to reduce roll motion in severe weather conditions.
Kellogg Brown & Root, a business unit of Halliburton Co., Dallas, has installed the topsides for the Malampaya project off the Philippines. Shell Philippines Exploration BV awarded KBR a contract in 1998 to engineer, procure, fabricate, install, and commission the Malampaya offshore gas processing facility.
Sphere Supply Inc., a unit of Santa Fe International Corp., Dallas, placed a $37 million order for four offshore blowout prevention and control systems from Hydril Co., Houston. It is the largest single order ever received by the Santa Fe Pressure Control segment. Deliveries of the systems will begin in the first quarter of 2002.
