Cenovus Energy Inc., Calgary, has provided updates on its Foster Creek, Christina Lake, Pelican Lake, Telephone Lake, and Narrows Lake oil sands and heavy oil projects in western Canada.

A BP PLC-led group has started gas production from Seth field in the Nile Delta offshore Egypt.

New facilities at supergiant Halfaya oil field in Iraq have started production in a development phase that will take output to 70,000 b/d. Subsequent phases will push production to a plateau rate of 535,000 b/d.

After almost 5 months of extended well tests in Tubarao Azul field, formerly Waimea, offshore Brazil, OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA has concluded that the ideal flow rate for the first two wells is 5,000 b/d of oil equivalent excluding the impact of any water injection operations.

Statoil ASA and partners submitted a development plan for Svalin field in the North Sea off Norway that envisions production start in 2013-14 to obtain reserves of 75 million bbl of oil equivalent.

BP PLC reported that initial start-up of the Galapagos development in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico began on June 3. The project marks the “first major infrastructure development” in the gulf since the Macondo well blowout and oil spill, according to a BP spokeswoman.

Viking Energy Holdings 2 Ltd., private London operator, will head a group that plans to bring into production Yakal, Tindalo, and Nido-1X1 oil discoveries on SC 54A in the Philippines offshore northwest Palawan Island.

Buru Energy Ltd., Perth, stared producing oil from the Canning basin onshore Western Australia. The company put its Ungani-1 sidetrack wildcat on extended production test beginning with test rates in excess of 2,000 b/d.

Total SA has started production from Islay natural gas field straddling the UK-Norwegian sector line in the North Sea 440 km northeast of Aberdeen (OGJ Online, July 15, 2010).

PTT Exploration & Production PCL (PTTEP) and its Bongkot joint venture partners reported the start of production from Greater Bongkot South (GBS) natural gas and condensate field in the Gulf of Thailand.

SeverEnergia, a Russian joint venture of Eni SPA, Novatek, Gazpromneft, and Enel, has started production of natural gas and condensate from Samburskoye field in the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district of western Siberia, Eni reported (OGJ Online, May 21, 2009).

A group led by DONG E&P Norge has started production at Oselvar field in the southern North Sea offshore Norway.

Production has begun from Marulk natural gas and condensate field offshore Norway (OGJ Online, Aug. 10, 2010).

BG Norge AS has started oil production from Gaupe field in the southern North Sea offshore Norway.