Husky boosts White Rose field production

July 11, 2006
Husky Energy Inc., Calgary, has increased production of White Rose oil field off Newfoundland to 110,000 b/d by bringing a fifth well online.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, July 11 -- Husky Energy Inc., Calgary, has increased production of White Rose oil field off Newfoundland to 110,000 b/d by bringing a fifth well online.

Crude oil from the White Rose SP1 well, 350 km southeast of St. John's, began flowing in late June to the SeaRose floating production, storage, and offloading vessel (FPSO).

Husky will conduct performance tests on the SeaRose FPSO later this month to determine its productive capacity and during the third quarter will apply to the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board to increase the annualized production limit above the currently approved 100,000 b/d (OGJ Online, July 3, 2006, Newsletter).

A sixth production well, scheduled to come on stream at yearend, is expected to increase White Rose production capacity to 125,000 b/d of oil.