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Drilling Production 2005 P

  • 06/10/2005 -- Pearl brings wells on stream off Thailand
    Pearl Energy Ltd., Singapore, has brought on stream three wells in Jasmine oil field on Gulf of Thailand Block B 5/27.
  • 06/10/2005 -- US drilling declines from latest high
    US drilling activity dipped this week, falling away from the highest level so far this year by 14 units with 1,339 rotary rigs still working, Baker Hughes Inc. reported June 10.
  • 06/09/2005 -- Gulfsands gains 100% of Iraq gas project
    Gulfsands Petroleum PLC, Houston, has acquired the remaining 15% interest in the Misan natural gas utilization project in southern Iraq from private Russian firm Ronexim.
  • 06/08/2005 -- Rowan seeks new contract for Gorilla VII
    Rowan Cos. Inc. is offering the Gorilla VII jack up for work after receiving notification that Tuscan Energy (Scotland) Ltd., operator of the Ardmore oil field development in the UK North Sea, is insolvent.
  • 06/07/2005 -- Statoil stops drilling well off Venezuela
    Statoil has suspended drilling of the Ballena 1-X well on Block 4 in the Plataforma Deltana area off Venezuela for safety reasons.
  • 06/03/2005 -- Stratic's Akkaya-1 tests gas off Turkey
    Stratic Energy Corp., Toreador Resources Corp., and Turkish Petroleum Corp. (TPAO) tested natural gas in the Akkaya-1 delineation well in shallow waters of the western Black Sea 5 miles off Turkey.
  • 06/03/2005 -- US drilling hits new high for the year
    US drilling activity increased this week to the highest level this year with 1,353 rotary rigs working, up by 22 from the previous week and from 1,168 in the same period last year, said Baker Hughes Inc.
  • 05/27/2005 -- US drilling at 5-week high
    US drilling activity increased to the highest level in five weeks, up by 16 units with 1,331 rotary rigs at work, said Baker Hughes Inc.
  • 05/24/2005 -- KOC lets contract for oil field upgrades
    South Korea's SK Engineering & Construction Co. have signed a $1.2 billion contract with Kuwait Oil Co. to upgrade production sites boost Kuwait's oil output capacity.
  • 05/23/2005 -- Uzbekistan oil, condensate output down
    Uzbekistan's state-run Uzneftegaz has reduced production of oil, including gas condensate, by 16.7% to 1.948 million tonnes and natural gas by 1.2% to 20.219 billion cu m in the first quarter of 2005 compared with the same period of 2004.
  • 05/23/2005 -- Total lets subsea systems contract for Akpo
    Total SA has let a $340 million contract to the Cameron division of Cooper Cameron Corp. for subsea production systems for Akpo, Total's 44-well development project off Nigeria.
  • 05/20/2005 -- Rig counts increase in US and Canada
    The Baker Hughes Inc. US rig count for the week of May 20 increased by 7 from the prior week to 1,315. It was up 143 from the same week a year earlier.
  • 05/17/2005 -- Australia, Timor Leste reach agreement
    Australia and Timor Leste (East Timor) have reached an accord over petroleum production sharing in the controversial Timor Sea boundary demarcation issue between the two countries.
  • 05/11/2005 -- East Texas Bossier gas play growing to southwest
    Burlington Resources Inc., Houston, said it is producing more than 120 MMcfd of gas from 10 wells and plans a large 2005 drilling program in the Savell field area near the southwestern end of the East Texas Jurassic Bossier sand gas trend.
  • 05/11/2005 -- Lukoil starts gas flow at Nakhodkinskoye field
    OAO Lukoil started gas production from Nakhodkinskoye field in northern Tyumen's Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District.
  • 05/04/2005 -- Statoil to improve recovery at Norne field
    Statoil ASA will invest 800 million kroner to install a new subsea template and drill two wells to recover an extra 10 million bbl of oil from its Norne field in the Norwegian Sea.
  • 05/04/2005 -- Drilling resumes at Statoil's Guovca prospect in Barents Sea
    Statoil ASA has resumed drilling a wildcat on its Guovca prospect in the Barents Sea after a 3-week halt due to a leak of about 1 cu m of hydraulic oil on Apr. 12. The well was initially expected to be complete by May 1 (OGJ Online, Apr. 7, 2005).
  • 05/04/2005 -- OTC: Aging UK wells have structural integrity problems
    Some 83% of the operators of more than 6,000 offshore wells on the UK continental shelf (UKCS) are experiencing structural integrity problems with aging wells, said officials of UWG Ltd., a unit of Acteon Group Ltd., Norwich, UK, at a press conference at the Offshore Technology Conference.
  • 05/03/2005 -- Stripper Well Consortium cites technologies
    Six new technologies developed to boost oil and gas production from stripper wells have been commercialized or are near commercialization, reported the Stripper Well Consortium, Washington, DC.
  • 05/02/2005 -- Record well depths challenged in US gulf
    At least two wells could set drilling depth records in the Mississippi Fan fold belt in the central Gulf of Mexico soon.
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