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Drilling Production 2007 P

  • 02/23/2007 -- US drilling activity climbs
    US drilling activity continued to climb for the fourth consecutive week with 1,754 rotary rigs working, 8 more than the previous week.
  • 02/23/2007 -- PDO lets contract for Marmul polymer flood
    Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) has let an engineering, procurement, and construction contract to a consortium led by SNF SAS, a French polyacrylamide producer, for a polymer flood in Marmul oil field in southern Oman.
  • 02/23/2007 -- Argentina, Venezuela start Orinoco drilling
    Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner inaugurated drilling of the first well in the Orinoco heavy-oil belt to be operated by Argentine companies.
  • 02/22/2007 -- Field off Hong Kong due new platform jacket
    CNOOC Ltd. has decided to replace a platform jacket found last year to have been deformed in a gas field under development in the Pearl River Mouth basin of the South China Sea.
  • 02/22/2007 -- Sakhalin-1 hits first-phase production peak
    Exxon Neftegas Ltd., operator of the Sakhalin-1 project off eastern Russia, has reached its targeted first-phase peak production rate of 250,000 b/d of oil.
  • 02/21/2007 -- Apache brings three wells on production off Australia
    Houston independent Apache Corp. has completed and placed on production three wells on its operated Harriet joint venture acreage in the Carnarvon basin off Western Australia.
  • 02/20/2007 -- JV ramps up gas production from Thailand's Phu Horm field
    A group led by Hess Corp. has ramped up natural gas production to 100 MMcfd from Phu Horm field, Thailand's second onshore producing gas field.
  • 02/20/2007 -- PTTEP lets contract for Arthit field development
    Petroleum Authority of Thailand's exploration and production subsidiary PTTEP has awarded Technip a contract for the detailed engineering of four generic wellhead platforms with associated subsea pipelines and tie-ins.
  • 02/19/2007 -- FCP to produce from Algeria's MLE field in 2009
    First Calgary Petroleums Ltd. (FCP) will produce 200 MMcfd of gas from MLE oil and gas field in Algeria's Berkine basin and will build infrastructure with Sonatrach by late 2009 under a $1.3 billion development plan.
  • 02/16/2007 -- BP to boost CBM production in San Juan basin
    BP PLC reported it plans to invest as much as $2.4 billion over the next 13 years to boost by more than 20% its 425 MMcfd share of coalbed methane gas production in the San Juan basin of southwestern Colorado.
  • 02/16/2007 -- UKOOA: UKCS oil, gas production down by 9% in 2006
    Production of oil and natural gas from the UK Continental Shelf fell by 9% to 2.95 million boe/d in 2006 compared with 2005 because of technical and commercial difficulties, according to a survey by the UK Offshore Operators' Association.
  • 02/16/2007 -- Intec starts joint study to assess subsea technologies
    Intec Engineering has initiated a joint industry study of subsea processing technologies to assess the state-of-the-art for three key deepwater process equipment types: subsea separators, subsea pumps, and subsea compressors.
  • 02/14/2007 -- PTTEP begins gas, condensate production from Shams field
    Thailand's PTT Exploration & Production PCL (PTTEP), operator of Oman's Block 44, has begun production of natural gas and condensate in its Shams (Sun) field, about 300 km west of Muscat.
  • 02/13/2007 -- Coal project may tip oil sands energy balance
    Sherritt International Corp., Toronto, has floated a development plan for a $1.2 billion clean coal gasification project in south-central Alberta that would produce syngas, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and elemental sulfur.
  • 02/12/2007 -- CPT subcontract let for Tombua-Landana development
    Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Services let a subcontract to Mustang Engineering to design a compliant piled tower (CPT) for the Tombua-Landana development project off Angola to support full drilling and production on Block 14.
  • 02/12/2007 -- Total launches CO2 sequestration project in Rousse gas field
    Total SA will capture and store 150,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide in a depleted gas field in southwestern France in 2008-10 under a pilot trial to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
  • 02/09/2007 -- Production, workover services due Pemex fields
    Petroleos Mexicanos has let a $45.8 million contract to a subsidiary of Key Energy Services Inc., Houston, for field production solutions and well workover services for its North Region assets in Mexico.
  • 02/09/2007 -- US drilling rises again; up 17 rigs
    US drilling activity continued to increase, adding 17 more rotary rigs for a total of 1,731 this week, up from 1,532 during the same period in 2006, said Baker Hughes Inc.
  • 02/08/2007 -- Statoil starts Gullfaks fields oil production
    Statoil ASA has begun oil production from its Skinfaks field and has implemented improved oil recovery techniques to boost oil output from Rimfaks field. Both lie in the Gullfaks license in the Tampen area of the Norwegian North Sea.
  • 02/06/2007 -- Petrobras begins production from Cottonwood field
    Petrobras America Inc. on Feb. 4 began producing from the first well in the Cottonwood gas-condensate field in the Gulf of Mexico—the first deepwater field outside of Brazil that Petrobras, as operator, has developed and put into production.
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