Algeria
Hassi Berkine South field in the Ghadames basin averaged 70,950 bo/d in second quarter 2000, up from 60,300 bo/d in the first quarter, said operator Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Houston.
The field's cumulative production is 31.2 million gross bbl in its first 2 years.
Hassi Berkine field, unitized with the adjacent Sonatrach/ENI Agip association, is expected to start up in early 2002 and giant Ourhoud field, unitized with Sona- trach/CEPSA and Sonatrach/Burlington Resources associations, is to go on line by yearend 2002.
Argentina
Chevron said its Chevron San Jorge unit, resulting from its acquisition of Petrolera Argentina San Jorge in September 1999, has become the country's second largest oil producer and oil exporter.
El Trapial field on the Huantraico Block in the central Neuquen basin has produced 130 million bbl of oil since discovery in 1991.
The Loma Negra field complex on the Rio Negro Norte Block in southeastern Neuquen has hosted nine discoveries since opening of Loma Negra field in 1997 (OGJ Online, May 18, 2000).
The company produces 2,000 b/d of oil and 42 MMcfd of gas in the Austral basin, where it made three finds in 1999.
Cuba
Cubacan Exploration Inc., Calgary, relinquished most of Block 17 in the North Cuban Province of southeastern Cuba to Cubapetroleo as of July 31 but proposed to negotiate a marketability declaration involving one well drilled on the block in 1998.
Farola North 1, TD 2,314 m, was cased to 1,600 m but not tested. It cut a net 100 m of gross hydrocarbon column in four zones of Cretaceous age. The shallowest zone, at 1,040-1,200 m, had 75.2 m of net thickness with 10.4% average porosity and was thought to contain gas with condensate or light oil.
Cubacan was to poll partners regarding participation.
Georgia Republic
CanArgo Energy Corp., Calgary, spudded the N-97 well, a 15,000-ft gas test in Ninotsminda field and the first of a three-well exploration program.
Principal target for N-97 is a limestone reservoir in rocks of Paleocene and late Cretaceous age beneath CanArgo's oil-producing Middle Eocene reservoir.
CanArgo and AES Gardabani are funding the program.
Indonesia
Equatorial Energy Inc., Calgary, plans to drill 15 wells in second half 2000 in Banjarsari field on the Tanjung Lontar concession east of Bengkulu in South Sumatra.
The company boosted field production to 1,700 b/d of 47° gravity sweet crude in August with the successful drilling of 7 oil wells and 1 gas well in first half 2000.
Iran
National Iranian Oil Co. discovered Homa gas field in South Fars province 45 km north of Asaluyeh.
Homa's reserves are 4.74 tcf of gas and 58 million bbl of gas liquids, NIOC director for exploration affairs Seyed Mahmoud Mohaddes told the Iranian News Agency.
Homa field's reservoir is 40 km long, 5.5 km wide, and 650 m deep. Ground elevation is about 1,350 m.
NIOC gave no specifics regarding the amount of drilling already carried out in the field or a development timetable.
Earlier this year NIOC announced discovery of supergiant Tabnak sweet gas field (OGJ, May 1, 2000, p. 40). TD of the discovery well was TD 3,345 m. NIOC placed Tabnak's reserves at 15.7 tcf of gas and 240 million bbl of condensate.
South Africa
Global Energy Holdings LLC, Denver, signed a 1-year technical cooperation agreement with Petroleum Agency SA to explore 7.16 million acre Block 3B/4B in the Orange basin off western South Africa.
Turbidite sandstone reservoirs sourced by oil-prone, marine source rocks are the primary objective, said Global, led by Randall C. Thompson. The block contains an 87,000-acre prospect in 600 m of water.
Global said the play is analogous to that off Angola from the Congo River Delta. Alliance partners Scott Pickford PLC and Nigel Press Associates will provide technical support to Global.
Yukon
The government at Whitehorse launched a second call for nominations through Oct. 12 of oil and gas rights in the Eagle Plain and Peel Plateau areas. A call for bids will follow.
The territory held its first sale of rights in November 1999.
The new call area lies between 65-67° N. Lat. and mostly between 134-140° W. Long., southwest of the northern border with the Northwest Territories.
Mississippi
Amerada Hess Corp., Houston, won approval from the state oil and gas board for 1,280-acre spacing units in part of Greens Creek field, Jefferson Davis County.
The order allows the twice-normal sized units for wells that include a horizontal completion of 100 ft or more in Cretaceous Hosston gas reservoirs, reported Southeastern Oil Review, Jackson, Miss.
The first well, in 9-5n-10w, will have a horizontal section at 17,000 ft TVD. Tests are to involve commingling of the First Hosston and Harper gas reservoirs.
Texas
Gulf Coast
Mitchell Energy & Development Corp., The Woodlands, Tex., plans to drill several wells starting in September to extend a discovery in Fort Bend County and test adjacent prospects.
The deeper of two Yegua sandstone pays at the 9,500-ft discovery flowed 2.1 MMcfd of gas and 100 b/d of condensate with 4,900 psi FTP. Higher rates were expected after installation of surface equipment.
The find is the first in a 77-sq-mile 1998 3D seismic survey area where Mitchell now holds 11,200 acres.
Utah
Economic and operating factors have delayed by perhaps 2 years the start of a carbon dioxide flood demonstration project at Anasazi oil field in the Paradox basin.
An optimized CO2 flood is judged capable of recovering 4.21 million st-tk bbl of oil or more than 89% of the field's OOIP, according to research sponsored by the field operator, Harken Southwest Corp., Houston, and the US Department of Energy (OGJ, May 3, 1999, p. 128).
ExxonMobil delayed plans to expand the area's only CO2 pipeline across the San Juan River and closer to Anasazi field. The line, which serves giant Greater Aneth oil field, is at capacity. Factors in the delay included low oil prices in 1998-99 and uncertainty related to the ExxonMobil merger.
Wyoming
Information from 8,600 coalbed methane wells in the Powder River basin indicate that 25 tcf of gas might be recoverable, compared with previous estimates of 9-12 tcf. Source of the estimate is Goolsby & Associates, Casper geologic consulting and exploration company.