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06/06/2003 -- US MMS awards $350,000 to research Hurricane Lili's effect on offshore facilities
The US Minerals Management Service has awarded four research contracts worth a total of $350,000 to research the impact that Hurricane Lili had upon offshore oil and natural gas facilities.
06/04/2003 -- Murphy Oil announces its first production off Malaysia
Murphy Oil Corp. said its West Patricia oil field in Block SK 308 off Sarawak, Malaysia, has come on stream according to schedule and within budget. Production started 16 months after the project was sanctioned.
06/04/2003 -- BP Thunder Horse drilling suspended as Transocean repairs rig
Drilling on the BP PLC-operated Thunder Horse field in Mississippi Canyon Block 822 remains suspended this week as Transocean Inc. continues repairs to its Discoverer Enterprise drillship.
06/04/2003 -- Imperial starts up new Mahkeses heavy oil project in Alberta
Imperial Oil Ltd., Calgary, Tuesday marked the opening of its plant and field facilities for the Mahkeses (Phases 11-13) project, a major, $650 million (Can.) expansion of its heavy oil operations at Cold Lake, Alta.
06/03/2003 -- Petroleum Exploration to develop, operate Block 22 fields in Pakistan
Pakistan Petroleum Ltd.(PPL) Sunday turned over operatorship to Petroleum Exploration (Pvt.) Ltd. (PEL) of Block 22 in Sindh and Balochistan provinces, Pakistan. PEL will be responsible for the development and production of the Sadiq X-1 well on Lease No. 155/PAK/2003, the Khanpur X-1 well on Lease 156/PAK/2003, and the Hasan X-1 well on 157/PAK/2003.
06/03/2003 -- China, Kazakhstan sign oil pipeline agreement
China's President Hu Jintao and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev Tuesday signed agreements to revitalize work on an oil pipeline from western Kazakhstan to China as well as to boost Chinese participation more generally in the Kazakh energy sector.
06/03/2003 -- Sapet to invest $11 million in expanded Talara drilling off Peru
China National Petroleum Corp. subsidiary , Sapet Development Corp., which produced 3,012 b/d of oil off Peru's north coast during January-April and 1.35 MMcfd of associated natural gas, plans to invest at least $11 million in 3 year program to expand production from Talara's north coast Blocks VII/VI.
06/02/2003 -- New tools, approaches meet increased downhole demands
Numerous new drilling, completion, and producing technologies offer a variety of improved approaches.
05/30/2003 -- US land drilling activity continues to ratchet up
US drilling activity continued to ratchet up with 1,059 rotary rigs working this week, 9 more than the previous week and up from 854 during the same period a year ago, officials said Friday at Baker Hughes Inc.
05/30/2003 -- Reassuring supplier
Venezuela is working hard to repair strained relations with the US government and its oil customers. In an encouraging sign for potential investors, the government may soon accept a referendum on populist leader Hugo Chávez's presidency after Aug. 19.
05/23/2003 -- Petrobras says another Coral field production well on stream
The 7-CRL-4D well in Coral field has started production, flowing 10,000 oil b/d of 41° gravity oil, said Petroleo Brasilero (Petrobras) SA, Brazil's state-run oil company.
05/23/2003 -- DRILLING MARKET FOCUS
US drilling rises amid reports of higher finding costs and improved prospects
US drilling activity continued to climb, up 10 rotary rigs to 1,050 working this week, the largest number of units drilling in some 19 months, Baker Hughes Inc. reported Friday.
05/22/2003 -- Statoil spuds first exploration well on North Sea Verdandi prospect
Statoil ASA Thursday spudded the first exploration well to be drilled on its Verdandi prospect on Block 16/1, which lies about 25 km southwest of Norsk Hydro ASA's Grane field in the North Sea, the company reported.
05/22/2003 -- Oman oil production relies heavily on ESPs
Electrical submersible pumps play an important role in Oman because the pumps lift about 46% of the 780,000 bo/d of oil and condensates produced.
05/19/2003 -- ConocoPhillips, Anadarko to expand Alpine capacity in Alaska
ConocoPhillips Alaska and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. Friday reported plans to increase the oil production capacity of Alpine field on Alaska's North Slope beginning in late 2004.
05/16/2003 -- Japan frac succeeds in deep, naturally fractured volcanics
A multistage completion was successful in a deep, hot, and naturally fractured volcanic rock of the Minami-Nagaoka field, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, using six propped fracture treatment stages.
05/15/2003 -- Aminex awards drilling contact for Nyuni license off Tanzania
Aminex PLC, London, let a contract to the Dafora Group of Romania for use of an F200 rig to drill two wells with an option for two more wells on the Nyuni license off Tanzania.
05/14/2003 -- Vintage appraisal well indicates discovery potential in Yemen republic
Tests by Vintage Petroleum Inc. of its second appraisal well indicate the continuity of productive oil and gas sands over that structure and "the potential of a new exploration play in the Sab'atayn basin," company officials said Wednesday.
05/13/2003 -- EIA: Iraq production delayed further; Nigeria market remains constrained
Thamir Abbas Ghadban, the newly appointed head of Iraq's oil sector, is more pessimistic about prospects for a quick recovery in Iraqi oil production than he was last week when he indicated that crude oil production could reach 1.5 million b/d by the end of June.
05/12/2003 -- Petrobras completing Coral field 's D4 production well
Bad weather and technical problems delayed Petroleo Brasileiro SA's (Petrobras) second production well, Coral D4, in Coral field in the Santos basin off Brazil, which is now in its final stages of completion.

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