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Drilling Production 2006 P

  • 03/10/2006 -- US drilling shows small increase
    The recent decline in US drilling appeared to be bottoming out, with this week's count up by 1 unit to 1,532 compared with 1,282 working rigs during the same period last year, said Baker Hughes Inc. Mar. 10.
  • 03/10/2006 -- Imperial Energy begins Tomsk oil production
    Imperial Energy Corp. PLC, London, has begun production "at rates in line with expectations" from wells Snezhnaya 135 and Dvoinoye 2 on Block 77 in the Tomsk region of western Siberia. Tomsk's main reservoir is in the deep Jurassic.
  • 03/08/2006 -- Statoil confirms cause of platform gas leak
    Statoil ASA has confirmed that the cause of a Jan. 19 gas leak on the Visund platform in the North Sea was a design fault on a knock-out drum.
  • 03/08/2006 -- Two deepwater gulf fields start gas flow
    Dominion Exploration & Production has brought gas production on line from Rigel field on Mississippi Canyon Block 296 and Seventeen Hands field on Mississippi Canyon Block 299, both about 120 miles southeast of New Orleans.
  • 03/08/2006 -- Shell, Statoil propose CO2 project off Norway
    Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Statoil ASA agreed to work together toward a project that would capture carbon dioxide from power plants and use it for enhanced oil recovery at Draugen and Heidrun oil and gas fields off Norway.
  • 03/07/2006 -- Contract let for fourth Karachaganak train
    Petrofac Ltd., Woking, UK, has secured an engineering services contract for a fourth train of the processing complex at Karachaganak gas and condensate field in Kazakhstan.
  • 03/07/2006 -- Chevron begins to drill Barrow CO2 study well
    The Chevron Corp.-led group for the proposed Gorgon-Jansz LNG project in Western Australia has spudded a carbon dioxide data well on Barrow Island to collect additional scientific information to proceed with the injection of CO2 produced with methane from the Gorgon reservoir.
  • 03/07/2006 -- GlobalSantaFe gets 7-year deal for new ultradeepwater rig
    GlobalSantaFe Corp. has signed a $1 billion draft deal for a new ultradeepwater semisubmersible drilling rig.
  • 03/07/2006 -- DOE sees large remaining US oil resource
    The US holds as much as 430 billion bbl of technically recoverable oil in a resource in place of 1.124 trillion bbl, according to the Department of Energy.
  • 03/03/2006 -- US drilling continues to decline
    US drilling continued to decline, down by 12 rotary rigs to 1,531 active this week but up from 1,290 during the same period a year ago, said Baker Hughes Inc.
  • 03/02/2006 -- Deal signed for platform rig off Malaysia
    ExxonMobil has signed a 3-year contract extension valued at about $65 million with SapuraCrest Petroleum Bhd. unit Petcon (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. for a tender-assisted platform rig off Malaysia.
  • 03/01/2006 -- Chevron drilling deals include new drillship
    Chevron Corp. has awarded Transocean Inc., Houston, three multiyear deepwater drilling contracts totaling $1.7 billion, one of which will require construction of a drillship to be dedicated to Chevron use for 5 years.
  • 02/28/2006 -- ATP well starts gas flow in Dutch North Sea
    ATP Oil & Gas Corp. has begun production from its L06d-S1 well in 115 ft of water in the Dutch North Sea.
  • 02/28/2006 -- Chinguetti field on stream off Mauritania
    Woodside Energy Ltd.'s Chinguetti oil field off Mauritania has started production.
  • 02/28/2006 -- Petrobras platform hull en route to Brazil
    Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) said its P-52 semisubmersible platform's hull has departed Singapore's Keppel Fels yard en route to Brazilian waters.
  • 02/27/2006 -- Otway basin CO2 sequestration trial advances
    Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC), Canberra, has been awarded two production licenses in the onshore Otway basin of western Victoria in which to conduct its first carbon dioxide sequestration trial.
  • 02/24/2006 -- US rig count slips to 1,543
    US drilling slipped to 1,543 rotary rigs working, 2 fewer than the previous week but up from 1,281 during the same period last year, said Baker Hughes Inc.
  • 02/23/2006 -- Saudi Aramco lets contracts for land rigs
    Saudi Aramco has let four drilling contracts to Al-Rushaid Parker Drilling LLC, a new 50-50 joint venture of Parker Drilling Co., Houston, and Abdullah Rasheed Al-Rushaid Co. for Drilling Oil & Gas Ltd.
  • 02/22/2006 -- Petrobras seeks bids on deepwater rigs
    Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) announced two competitive rounds for contracts for deepwater drilling rigs.
  • 02/21/2006 -- Kerr-McGee starts Ticonderoga production
    Kerr-McGee Corp. started production Feb. 16 from Ticonderoga oil and gas field on Green Canyon Block 768 in 5,250 ft of water in the Gulf of Mexico.
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