UK: Hurricane picks Lancaster development contractor

March 19, 2012
Hurricane Exploration PLC has appointed EPC Offshore to select the optimum development concept for Hurricane’s Lancaster discovery on the West of Shetlands 205/22 block in the UK.

Hurricane Exploration PLC has appointed EPC Offshore to select the optimum development concept for Hurricane’s Lancaster discovery on the West of Shetlands 205/22 block in the UK.

The first phase of the project is expected to run until the end of 2012 with front-end engineering design starting in 2013.

Hurricane has a 100% holding in Lancaster, which contains an independently estimated mid-case contingent resource of more than 200 million bbl of recoverable oil. Lancaster is southeast of Schiehallion field.