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03/31/2006 -- Canada's rig count plunges as US total rises
Canada's rotary rig count plummeted by about one-third the week ended Mar. 31, dropping by 214 rigs, reported Baker Hughes Inc., Houston.
03/30/2006 -- Kerr-McGee starts Constitution field output
Kerr-McGee Corp. has started production from its 100%-owned Constitution oil and gas field in 5,000 ft of water on Green Canyon Blocks 679 and 680 in the Gulf of Mexico.
03/30/2006 -- Total starts up Glenelg field off the UK
Total SA has started production from Glenelg gas and condensate field in 100 m of water in the UK North Sea, 240 km east of Aberdeen.
03/28/2006 -- Production starts in Sonoran workover program
Sonoran Energy Inc. has begun production of more than 100 b/d of oil equivalent from three of four wells in the first phase of a workover program in Louisiana.
03/28/2006 -- South East Mananda oil field comes on stream
Oil Search Ltd., Sydney, started production from its $145 million South East Mananda oil field development project in the southern highlands of Papua New Guinea. Oil Search received development approval for the field early last year (OGJ, Feb. 14, 2005, Newsletter).
03/27/2006 -- Heavy oil flow system due test in India
Cairn Energy PLC has let a contract to Oilflow Solutions Ltd. to conduct field trials for a system to improve flow characteristics of heavy oil in Rajasthan oil field in northwestern India.
03/27/2006 -- P-50 FPSO en route to Albacora Leste field
Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) reported that the P-50 floating production, storage, and offloading vessel is en route to Albacora Leste oil field in the Campos basin off Brazil (see map, OGJ, Aug. 9, 2004, p. 37).
03/24/2006 -- S&P sees strong year for US drilling contractors
US drilling contractors will have higher day rates and greater pricing leverage for service costs this year compared with last year, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said in a Mar. 24 report.
03/24/2006 -- PDVSA shuts down ExxonMobil's La Ceiba field
Venezuela's national oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA is reported to have shut down ExxonMobil Corp.'s La Ceiba oil field in Venezuela by canceling the lifting of about 12,000 b/d of production.
03/23/2006 -- DSI to handle deepwater semi certification
An affiliate of Enterprise Product Partners has let a contract to Deepwater Specialists Inc. for mechanical completion certification services for the Independence Hub semi production facility under development on MC Block 920 in the Gulf of Mexico.
03/22/2006 -- Rigless installation called region's first
BJ Tubular Services has completed off Ivory Coast what it said is the region's first rigless conductor installation.
03/22/2006 -- Four operators join Aussie multiwell program
Peak Group, Aberdeen, has secured a rig and associated contracts and has begun its first multiwell, multioperator well management program off Australia.
03/21/2006 -- Engineering set for Husky upgrader expansion
Husky Energy Inc., Calgary, has approved plans to immediately begin the $90 million detailed engineering to increase capacity of its Lloydminster heavy oil upgrader to 150,000 b/d (OGJ Online, Dec. 2, 2005).
03/17/2006 -- US drilling increases by 14 units
US drilling increased this week, up by 14 units with 1,546 rotary rigs at work, up from 1,320 during this period last year, said Baker Hughes Inc.
03/17/2006 -- Cannonball flows gas off Trinidad and Tobago
BP Trinidad & Tobago said the $250 million Cannonball platform started gas production off Trinidad and Tobago on Mar. 12. The unmanned platform is 35 km off Galeota Point, Mayaro, in 231 ft of water.
03/16/2006 -- Ivanhoe Energy upgrades heavy oil bottoms
Ivanhoe Energy Inc. has upgraded vacuum tower bottoms (VTBs) derived from heavy oil at its heavy-oil upgrading demonstration facility in California.
03/15/2006 -- Plan addresses flagging Aussie oil output
The Australian government and petroleum industry have jointly launched an outline plan to increase Australia's flagging oil production, make Australia one of the world's top five LNG exporters, and double domestic use natural gas.
03/14/2006 -- Fires force shut-in of Panhandle production
Cano Petroleum Inc. has shut in production of 800 b/d of oil equivalent from Panhandle oil field in the North Texas counties of Hutchinson, Gray, and Carson due to grass fires in the area.
03/14/2006 -- IEA reclassifies Venezuelan heavy crude
The International Energy Agency has reclassified Venezuelan extra-heavy oil in its reports of worldwide oil production.
03/13/2006 -- Greater Ekofisk production to be suspended
ConocoPhillips plans to temporarily shut-in oil and gas production from the Greater Ekofisk Area in the Norwegian North Sea.

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