Petrobras as operator produced 2.45 million b/d of oil equivalent in Brazil in February 2012, consisting of 2.1 million b/d of oil and 2 bcfd of natural gas.

The Uzbek subsidiary of Lukoil Overseas started gas production at the end of 2011 at Dzharkuduk-Yangi Kyzylcha, largest field in the company’s Southwest Gissar block in the Kashkadarya region of southeastern Uzbekistan.

BP Exploration (Delta) Ltd. has started oil production from NS377 field on the North Shadwan concession in Egypt’s southern Gulf of Suez.

An Anadarko Petroleum Corp. group has started oil production from its Caesar/Tonga development in the Green Canyon area of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

A group led by Wintershall has started production from K18-Golf field, the company’s first tight gas field in the Netherlands North Sea.

Oil production began Feb. 25 from Cascade deepwater field into the Gulf of Mexico’s first floating production, storage, and offloading vessel, said operator Petrobras America Inc.

Italy’s Eni SPA said it has stepped up efforts to fully resume Libyan oil production and gas exports through the Greenstream pipeline and targets a return to the precrisis 280,000 b/d of oil equivalent by the second half of 2012.

PetroMagdalena has 67.5% working interest subject to ANH approval in the Arrendajo block, just north of the Cubiro block.

A group led by Santos Ltd. has begun production from Wortel gas field in the East Java basin offshore Indonesia.

Production of crude oil has begun from Bhagyam field, the second to start up in a complex developed by Cairn India and state-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corp. in Rajasthan, India (OGJ Online, Oct. 20, 2011).

Dana Petroleum PLC has started production from the Van Ghent well in Phase 1 of its Medway development project in the Netherlands North Sea.

Buccaneer Energy Ltd., Sydney, started gas production from its Kenai Loop-1 well onshore Alaska’s Cook Inlet on Jan. 14, 2012.

Angola’s government forecasts an increase to 2 million b/d from the current 1.6 million b/d due to new fields coming online by 2014, according to a senior official.