Topsides detailed engineering design for Statoil’s Mariner heavy oil field development in the North Sea will be performed by CB&I, Houston, under a $250 million contract let by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd.

BP Norway and partners have started production from Skarv oil and natural gas field in 350-450 m of water in the Norwegian Sea.

Production has begun from Visund South oil and gas field in the North Sea offshore Norway (OGJ Online, June 10, 2011).

Afren PLC and Amni International Petroleum Development Co. Ltd. have started production from an extension of Okoro oil field offshore southeastern Nigeria at a stabilized rate of 5,000 b/d of 38º gravity oil (OGJ Online, Mar. 7, 2012).

China National Petroleum Corp. is producing 1,950 b/d of oil from Angot field in northern Afghanistan on one of three production-sharing blocks it received in the country’s licensing round last year (OGJ Online, Jan. 16, 2012).

Test production has begun at a pilot project in Vostochno-Messoyakhskoe oil field in the northern part of the Yamal region of Russia.

Lukoil-Nizhnevolzhskneft has let a contract to Saipem for transportation and installation of facilities at Vladimir Filanovsky oil field under development in the northern Caspian Sea (OGJ Online, May 4, 2012).

Total has started production from Alta gas-condensate field offshore Norway, expecting average flow to reach 14,000 boe/d, including 2,500 b/d of condensate, next year.

A group led by BP Exploration Operating Co. Ltd. has started gas production from Devenick field in the UK Central North Sea.

The buoyant tower drilling and production platform for BPZ Energy’s Corvina oil field has been set offshore Peru (OGJ Online, Aug. 7, 2012).

Hess Corp. has completed its appraisal program on the Equus natural gas project offshore Western Australia and is calling for registrations of interest for major subsea and floating production system contracts.

Brazil’s Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) reported that production has started last week at Chinook field in the Gulf of Mexico. Production is connected to the BW Pioneer floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel—the first FPSO to produce oil and gas in the US portion of the gulf.

UK regulators have approved the field development plan for Fionn field on UK North Sea Block 211/22a South East Area.