By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Feb. 8 -- Lundin Petroleum AB, Stockholm, has spudded the Oudna oil production well in as much as 300 m of water on its Hammamet Grand Fonds license off northeast Tunisia.
The Pride Venezuela semisubmersible will drill, test, and complete the production well and an injection well.
The Oudna 1 discovery well tested 7,000 b/d of 41° gravity crude oil from Miocene Lower Birsa sands at 1,600 m.
Oudna production is expected to start in late 2006 at a rate of 20,000 b/d from two Birsa intervals (OGJ Online, July 3, 2003).
Oudna development involves the relocation and modification of the Ikdam floating production, storage, and offloading vessel, currently in mature Isis oil field (see map, OGJ, July 18, 2005, p. 32).
Isis production will be shut in during the second quarter. The Ikdam FPSO then will be released for upgrade and reclassification before redeployment in Oudna field.
Lundin Petroleum and Atlantis Holding Norway AS each holds 50% of Oudna field. The Tunisian state company ETAP has a 20% option, which can be exercised up to 120 days from the start of production.
