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Drilling Production 2013 P

  • 01/18/2013 -- US drilling rig count falls 12 units to 1,749
    The US drilling rig count dropped by 12 units during the week ended Jan. 18, with the total number of rotary rigs reaching 1,749, Baker Hughes Inc. reported. This compares with 2,008 rigs working in the comparable week last year.
  • 01/17/2013 -- Sunshine Oilsands advancing SAGD projects
    Sunshine Oilsands Ltd., Calgary, has approved a budget for 2013 that includes the drilling of 16 well-pairs at its West Ells project and preliminary work at its Thickwood and Legend Lake areas, all in the Athabasca oil sands region of Alberta and targeted for development with steam-assisted gravity drainage.
  • 01/17/2013 -- West Qurna-2 field output target lowered
    Lukoil and two state oil companies have lowered the contractual target for crude oil output from West Qurna-2 oil field in Iraq by one-third.
  • 01/17/2013 -- Petrocarabobo heavy oil well starts flow
    Production of extra heavy crude oil began late in December from the first well operated by the Petrocarabobo joint venture in the Orinoco oil belt of Venezuela.
  • 01/15/2013 -- TNK-BP sees Verknechonskoye plateau in 2014
    TNK-BP will focus development work at supergiant Verkhnechonskoye oil and condensate field in the northern Irkutsk region of Russia on expanding capacity of the oil treatment unit to 7.5 million tonnes/year and building a third train of the power park and other infrastructure.
  • 01/15/2013 -- Zapolyarnoye output reaches capacity rate
    Supergiant Zapolyarnoye natural gas and condensate field has reached its design capacity output of 130 billion cu m/year to become Russia’s most prolific gas field, reports Gazprom, parent of operator Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg.
  • 01/11/2013 -- China okays revised development plan for Penglai 19-3 oil field
    China's National Energy Administration has approved a revised development plan for second-phase development of Penglai 19-3 and Penglai 25-6 oil fields in northern Bohai Bay.
  • 01/11/2013 -- US drilling rig count down 1 unit 1,761
    The US drilling rig count fell by 1 unit during the week ended Jan. 11, with the total number of rotary rigs reaching 1,761, Baker Hughes Inc. reported. This compares with 1,987 rigs working in the comparable week last year.
  • 01/10/2013 -- Topsides contract let for Mariner heavy oil field development
    Topsides detailed engineering design for Statoil’s Mariner heavy oil field development in the North Sea will be performed by CB&I, Houston, under a $250 million contract let by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd.
  • 01/08/2013 -- Aasta Hansteen, pipeline plans submitted
    Statoil and partners have submitted plans for development of deepwater Aasta Hansteen natural gas and condensate field offshore Norway and for an affiliated pipeline that will make further exploration and development possible in the northern Norwegian Sea (OGJ Online, July 13, 2012).
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