Heerema Fabrication Group has completed the process module to be installed on BP PLC’s Andrew platform in the central North Sea to accommodate production from Kinnoull oil and gas field to be developed subsea.

Samples collected from an oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico matched samples of oil that originated from the deepwater Macondo well blowout and resulting spill in 2010 off Louisiana, the US Coast Guard confirmed.

A research team led by the University of Texas at Austin and including engineering and environmental testing firms URS and Aerodyne Research is conducting a field study to measure methane emissions from natural gas production.

Shona Energy Co. Inc., Calgary, said its Geoproduction Oil & Gas Co. of Colombia will supply natural gas from the company’s Esperanza block in Colombia’s Lower Magdalena basin to the planned Altenesol Nataly I LNG project in Cordoba Province.

Despite challenges, Iraq’s energy sector holds the key to the country’s future prosperity and can make a major contribution to the stability and security of global energy markets, the International Energy Agency said Oct. 9.

Shell Canada Ltd. has let a contract to Fluor Corp. for engineering, procurement, and construction of its Quest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Alberta.

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).

Some $91 billion is expected to be spent on 121 floating production systems during 2013-17, Douglas-Westwood said in its most recent study.

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.

OMV AG and partners will drill four wells and lay a 50-km pipeline to develop Latif natural gas field in the Sindh province of Pakistan (OGJ Online, May 4, 2010).

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

Policymakers across all levels of US government must guard against unnecessary or duplicative regulations that could impede investments in unconventional oil and gas plays, which already created jobs and boosted revenues for some states, American Petroleum Institute Chief Economist John Felmy said.

Baytex Energy Corp., Calgary, plans to begin pilot thermal recovery project next year on oil sands acreage it has acquired in the Cold Lake region of northeastern Alberta.

Athabasca Oil Corp., Calgary, expects to receive approval to proceed with its Hangingstone Project 1 in situ oil sands development in the southern Athabasca region of Alberta (OGJ Online, Sept. 13, 2010).