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Drilling Production 2005 P

  • 03/22/2005 -- Job Corps program trains roustabouts
    An industry-government training program for entry-level oil-field workers will graduate its first class soon in Carville, La.
  • 03/21/2005 -- US rig activity soars as Canada's slows
    Drilling activity in the US jumped by 38 rotary rigs to 1,320 working the week ended Mar. 18, Baker Hughes Inc. reported, while the number of rigs working in Canada plummeted by 112 to 329. Total North America rigs working—drilling gas wells primarily—are nevertheless up 70 over last year's 1,579.
  • 03/17/2005 -- Petronius flow resumes off Louisiana
    ChevronTexaco's Petronius platform is back on line after 42,000 b/d of crude oil and 65 MMcfd of gas production was shut in due to severe damage from Hurricane Ivan in September.
  • 03/16/2005 -- Rig to be built for North Slope JV
    Pioneer Natural Resources Alaska Inc., Irving, Tex.; Doyon Drilling Inc., Anchorage; and Akita Drilling Ltd., Calgary, have signed a 4-year contract to build a rig for work on the North Slope of Alaska.
  • 03/15/2005 -- Suncor plans third oil sands upgrader
    Suncor Energy Inc., Calgary, applied to Alberta regulators Mar. 14 for authorization to construct and operate a third oil sands upgrader that would double production capacity at its Fort McMurray, Alta., oil sands facility to more than half a million b/d of light oil.
  • 03/15/2005 -- Thailand to ease concession terms
    Thailand wants to make its participation terms more attractive to international producers and might cut royalty and income taxes in a bid to promote oil and gas production from marginal wells.
  • 03/15/2005 -- MMS issues final gas valuation rule
    The US Minerals Management Services issued a final rule outlining changes to the 1988 Federal Gas Valuation Rule, used to determine royalty on production from federal leases.
  • 03/14/2005 -- Cakerawala field starts gas flow
    Commercial natural gas production started this month from Cakerawala field, the first field in the Malaysia-Thailand Joint Development Area (JDA) in the South China Sea.
  • 03/10/2005 -- Inert gas injection set in Athabasca oil sands
    Paramount Resources Ltd., Calgary, is evaluating a technology fix to replace pressure dissipated when gas associated with potentially recoverable bitumen is produced from the Athabasca oil sands of northeastern Alberta.
  • 03/04/2005 -- Land activity leads drilling rebound
    US drilling activity rebounded up by 9 units from the previous week to 1,290 rotary rigs working this week, Baker Hughes Inc. reported Mar. 4.
  • 03/02/2005 -- Sanha condensate flow starts off Angola
    ChevronTexaco Corp.'s Angolan subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Co. Ltd. has started condensate production from Sanha field on the Block 0 concession off Malongo, Cabinda province, Angola.
  • 03/01/2005 -- New FPSO due in China's Peng Lai field
    CNOOC Ltd. and ConocoPhillips China Inc. (COPC) have signed a contract with Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corp., for a 280,000-dwt floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel hull for the Peng Lai complex of oil fields in China's Bohai Bay.
  • 03/01/2005 -- PTTEP develops Shams, sells gas to Oman
    Thailand's state-owned PTT Exploration & Production PLC (PTTEP) plans to invest $50 million this year to further develop Shams field on Block 44 in Oman, including the drilling of two more development wells.
  • 03/01/2005 -- GlobalSantaFe gets semi, awaits another
    GlobalSantaFe Corp. has taken delivery of the new Development Driller II ultradeepwater semisubmersible rig in Singapore. The rig will begin sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico in late May and will start a 3-year contract with BP PLC for the Atlantis project in July.
  • 03/01/2005 -- P-48 begins production in Campos basin
    State-run Petróleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) began production Feb. 28 from its P-48 platform in deepwater Caratinga field in the Campos basin off Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
  • 03/01/2005 -- Townsville gets Queensland coal gas
    A 50-50 combine of CH4 Gas Ltd., Brisbane, and BHP Billiton Ltd.'s coal unit began contract deliveries of gas last month from the $61 million Moranbah project in central coastal Queensland to Townsville 965 km northwest of Brisbane.
  • 02/25/2005 -- US drilling dips but remains seasonally strong
    US drilling activity dipped slightly, down by 14 rotary rigs to 1,281 units working, Baker Hughes Inc. reported. That's up from 1,134 a year ago and still in the highest range for February since 1986.
  • 02/25/2005 -- BP starts Clair field oil production
    BP PLC began production Feb. 21 from Clair oil field off the UK west of Shetland. Plateau production is expected to be 60,000 b/d of oil and 15 MMcfd of natural gas, the company said.
  • 02/22/2005 -- Ecuador generator to buy more Peru offshore gas
    BPZ Energy Inc., Houston, signed a third agreement to sell gas produced from fields off Peru to electricity generating concerns in Ecuador and Peru.
  • 02/18/2005 -- Caspian well gets long expandable liner
    Enventure Global Technology used its solid expandable tubular technology to install a 3,068-ft, 13-3/8 x 16-in. open-hole liner (OHL) in an ExxonMobil Corp. well in the Caspian Sea off Azerbaijan.
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