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06/06/2006 -- Letter signed for Frade FPSO off Brazil
A Chevron Corp. unit signed a letter of intent with SBM Offshore of the Netherlands for engineering, procurement, construction, and installation of a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel in Frade oil field in the Campos basin off Brazil.
06/05/2006 -- Aramco lets contract for four jack ups
Saudi Aramco has let a contract to GlobalSantaFe Corp. for four jack ups to drill off Saudi Arabia for 4 years.
06/02/2006 -- US rig count increases by 8
US drilling increased by 8 rotary rigs to 1,657 working this week, up from 1,353 during the same period last year, Baker Hughes Inc. reported.
06/02/2006 -- Syncrude unit repair might take 1-2 months
Syncrude Canada Ltd. could take 1-2 months to repair a problem associated with odorous emissions at its Mildred Lake oil sands plant north of Fort McMurray, Alta., reported Canadian Oil Sands Trust.
06/01/2006 -- Pemex lets contract for two light platforms
Fluor Corp. reported that ICA Fluor, its joint venture with Empresas ICA Sociedad Controladora, has received a $24 million contract from Pemex Exploration & Production for the fabrication of two lightweight offshore platforms, May D and Sinan NE, to be installed off Mexico.
05/26/2006 -- US, Canada drilling activity rises
Drilling activity in the US and Canada continued to rise the week ended May 26, said Baker Hughes Inc., with 68 more rotary rigs working than during the previous week.
05/24/2006 -- Sixth platform starts up in Bohai Bay field
CNOOC Ltd. has brought on stream Platform A, part of second-phase development of Bo Zhong (BZ) 25-1/25-1S field in southeast Bohai Bay off China.
05/23/2006 -- Indonesian gas disruption forces fuel switch
A disruption of gas supplies from BP Offshore North West Java (ONWJ) will force Indonesia's state-run power utility PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) to buy diesel for its power plants.
05/23/2006 -- Shell brings Mars production back on line
Shell Exploration & Production Co. is restarting oil and gas production from its Mars tension leg platform (TLP) on Mississippi Canyon Block 807 in the Gulf of Mexico.
05/19/2006 -- FX Energy to add gas production in Poland
FX Energy Inc., Salt Lake City, said construction began on facilities to place on production the 2004 Zaniemysl-3 gas discovery well in the Fences I project area in western Poland.
05/18/2006 -- Contract let for Tapti platform work
The joint venture operating the Tapti gas fields off western India has let contract to Cuel Ltd., Bangkok, for construction of a 2,500-tonne substructure for a process-compression platform; a 1,200-tonne, four-leg jacket with piles; and a flare tower and bridge.
05/18/2006 -- Exmar lets hull contract for deepwater system
Exmar NV, Antwerp, has signed a letter of intent with Kiewit Offshore Services (USA) for construction of a semisubmersible hull to function as the platform in a proprietary, deepwater floating production system.
05/17/2006 -- Eastern Siberia oil field under development
Russian independent Urals Energy Public Co. Ltd., Nicosia, Cypress, assumed financial and operating control of Dulisminskoye oil and gas-condensate field in the East Siberian basin in mid-April and has a $26 million development budget for 2006.
05/17/2006 -- Chinguetti oil flow down 40% since start
Production from Woodside Energy Ltd.'s Chinguetti oil field off Mauritania has fallen 40% since the field came on stream in February (OGJ, Mar. 6, 2006, Newsletter).
05/16/2006 -- Panola field growing in Oklahoma Arkoma
Unit Corp., Tulsa, said its Unit Petroleum Co. subsidiary started production May 2 at 42 MMcfd of gas from its Lively No. 7 well in Panola field in Latimer County, Okla., southeast of Wilburton in the Arkoma basin.
05/16/2006 -- El Paso starts up Gulf of Mexico gas wells
El Paso Exploration & Production Co. has brought online two deep shelf gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico.
05/16/2006 -- Ecuador terminates Oxy's Block 15 contract
Ecuador's minister of energy terminated Occidental Petroleum Corp.'s participation contract with state-owned Petroecuador for the operation of 494,000-acre Block 15.
05/16/2006 -- CNOOC eyes Panyu 30-1 development drilling
China National Offshore Oil Corp. expects to begin development drilling in September in Panyu 30-1 gas field in the eastern South China Sea after completion of a platform.
05/16/2006 -- Second Cliff Head well flows off Australia
Roc Oil (WA) Pty. Ltd., Sydney, has begun oil production from the CH-12H horizontal well in Cliff Head oil field off Western Australia. CH-12H, the second well drilled in the field, was producing 6,800 b/d of oil in mid-May.
05/15/2006 -- White Rose to produce 100,000 b/d at midyear
Husky Energy Inc., Calgary, on May 9-10 produced a gross 100,000 b/d of 31° gravity oil from White Rose oil field in the Jeanne d'Arc basin off Newfoundland, following the successful completion of a fourth production well.

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