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GUIDE TO WORLD CRUDES: Statoil assays Volve crude

01/26/2009
StatoilHydro has conducted a crude assay for its Volve field, which lies 200 km west of Stavanger (Fig. 1). Click here to enlarge imageThe field at the southern end of the Norwegian sector came on stream Feb. 12, 2008. The company published the assay on Oct. 13, 2008.StatoilHydro estimates recoverable reserves of 78.6 million bbl of oil and 1.5 billion cu m of gas. Volve will produce about 50,000 b/d at its peak. Gas is piped to the Sleipner A platform for final processing and export.Partners in the field include StatoilHydro, 59.6%, ExxonMobil Corp., 30.4%, and PA Resources, 10%. Click here to enlarge imageFig. 2 shows a true boiling point (TBP) curve for the whole crude. These data ar...
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