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POINT OF VIEW: PDO undertakes more complex production, development projects

11/05/2007
During his 5 years as managing director of Petroleum Development Oman, John Malcolm has seen an increase in the complexity of operations for sustaining oil production from the company’s large Block 6 in Oman.PDO produces oil and gas from about 3,750 wells in 120 fields and operates about 16,000 km of pipelines and flowlines, numerous oil production facilities, and three gas processing plants. In 2006, it used 36 drilling rigs to drill 249 oil wells in the complex geology of Oman that includes light and heavy oil accumulations in carbonates and sandstones, at shallow and deep depths. Its 2007 program calls for drilling about 400 wells.In 2006, PDO produced an average 589,000 bo/d, wh...
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