Statoil is shutting in the seven wells in Glitne oil field offshore Norway and closing the field.

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).

Suncor Energy Inc. has let a contract to Fluor Corp. for front-end project management and engineering services for second-phase development of its MacKay River in situ oil sands project in the northern Athabasca region of Alberta.

Under criticism from Azeri officials about production declines from the ACG oil and gas fields in the Caspian Sea, BP PLC has held meetings in London and Baku with representatives of State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) to discuss remedies.

Oil and natural gas production from the UK North Sea, helped by tax breaks enacted after a surprise rate increase last year, will rebound in the next 5 years before starting a decline likely to be irreversible, according to a forthcoming university study.

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).

Suncor Energy says bitumen production from the first three phases of its Firebag in situ project in Alberta reached design capacity of 120,000 b/d at the end of year’s third quarter, during which steaming began of wells in the project’s fourth phase (OGJ Online, July 28, 2011).

Mexico had the lowest energy security risk and Ukraine the highest among the top 25 global energy consumers, the US Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21^st Century said in a new index.

The Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC) released its Recommended Practices for Responding to Stray Gas Incidents, the fourth in a series of guidance documents.

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

Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum are producing 340 MMcfd of natural gas and 15,000 b/d of condensate from their equally shared interests in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.