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12/07/2007 -- ONGC secures jack ups for offshore drilling
Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd. (ONGC) signed two 3-year contracts with Hercules Offshore Inc., Houston, for the Hercules 258 and Hercules 260 jack up rigs for a drilling program off India.
12/07/2007 -- ConocoPhillips approves $14.3 billion capital budget
ConocoPhillips approved a 2008 capital budget of $14.3 billion, including cash capital expenditures and capitalized interest. That compares with a 2007 budget of $12.3 billion, including $500,000 of capitalized interest.
12/06/2007 -- BP to increase King oil field production by 20%
Oil production from offshore King field in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to increase by 20% thanks to the application of multiphase pump equipment that BP has installed.
12/05/2007 -- Staff returns to Thistle Alpha platform
All nonessential staff, totaling 116, returned to the Thistle Alpha platform in the UK northern North Sea by Nov. 27 following the outbreak of a serious fire on Nov. 24.
12/05/2007 -- BP, Husky Energy to form oil sands partnership
BP will join Husky Energy in developing Sunrise oil sands field in northeast Alberta under a joint $3 billion investment plan, marking its entry into this sector for the first time.
12/04/2007 -- Husky lets EPC contract for White Rose field
Husky Operations has let an EPC and maintenance support services contract to AKCS Offshore related to the production and operations of White Rose field in the Jeanne d'Arc basin.
12/03/2007 -- Petrobank to step up Bakken drilling in 2008
Petrobank Energy & Resources Ltd., Calgary, plans to drill 110 horizontal wells next year in the Bakken play in southeast Saskatchewan.
12/03/2007 -- Pemex begins dismantling Usumacinta drilling rig
Mexico's Petroleos Mexicanos has begun dismantling a damaged oil rig in the Bay of Campeche off Mexico as heat from near-constant fires has destabilized the structure.
12/03/2007 -- Acon completes Ardmore field abandonment on UKCS
Acorn Oil & Gas Ltd. has completed the 2-year abandonment program for Ardmore field on the UK continental shelf.
12/03/2007 -- Pemex moves ahead with PP-Maloob-C platform
Mexico's Pemex E&P subsidiary has awarded a $374 million-peso contract to J Ray McDermott for the PP-Maloob-C drilling platform for Maloob field in the Bay of Campeche.
11/30/2007 -- StatoilHydro lets HPHT system contract for Morvin field
StatoilHydro has let a 1 billion kroner contract to Aker Kvaerner to design and construct a HPHT subsea production system by May 2009 for Morvin oil and gas field in the Norwegian Sea.
11/30/2007 -- Total's Sisi-Nubi fields produce gas in Indonesia
Gas production has begun from Total SA-operated Sisi-Nubi fields off East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
11/30/2007 -- US drilling at 13-week high
US drilling activity jumped to 1,823 rotary rigs working this week, up 50 from the previous week to the largest number in 13 weeks, Baker Hughes Inc. reported Nov. 30. That compares with 1,717 rigs working in the same period last year.
11/30/2007 -- StatoilHydro stops Ormen Lange gas production
Natural gas production from Ormen Lange field, the largest gas field in development on the Norwegian Sea's continental shelf, has stopped because of a gas leak in the export compressors.
11/28/2007 -- Shell assumes operatorship of Ormen Lange development
Norske Shell AS will assume operatorship of the Ormen Lange natural gas field from StatoilHydro SA on Dec. 1.
11/28/2007 -- BP awards EPC to Petrofac for In Salah compression
Petrofac will design and install additional field compression facilities on the In Salah gas project in southwest Algeria to ensure a gas production plateau of 9 billion cu m/year beyond 2009.
11/28/2007 -- Prosafe lets VLCC conversion contract to Keppel
Norway's Prosafe awarded Keppel subsidiary Keppel Shipyard a $100 million contract to convert a VLCC into the world's first floating, drilling, production, storage, and offloading facility.
11/28/2007 -- Activists curb Petroecuador's Auca Sur oil output
Ecuador's state-owned Petroecuador said it has lost some 5,000 bbl of oil output due to a continuing protest by local villagers that disrupted operations in Dayuma, Orellana Province.
11/27/2007 -- CNOOC starts up platform in PL 19-3 oil field
CNOOC Ltd. has brought Platform C on stream in Peng Lai (PL) 19-3 oil field on Block 11/05 in Bohai Bay.
11/27/2007 -- Usumacinta rig leak may force well closing
Petroleos Mexicanos may close its Usumacinta oil rig and the Kab 121 oil well in the Bay of Campeche due to a continuing oil and gas leak, according to a senior company executive.

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