UK: Hurricane picks Lancaster development contractor
Hurricane Exploration PLC has appointed EPC Offshore to select the optimum development concept for Hurricane’s Lancaster discovery on the West of Shetlands 205/22 block in the UK.
Hurricane Exploration PLC has appointed EPC Offshore to select the optimum development concept for Hurricane’s Lancaster discovery on the West of Shetlands 205/22 block in the UK.
The first phase of the project is expected to run until the end of 2012 with front-end engineering design starting in 2013.
Hurricane has a 100% holding in Lancaster, which contains an independently estimated mid-case contingent resource of more than 200 million bbl of recoverable oil. Lancaster is southeast of Schiehallion field.
Alan Petzet is Chief Editor-Exploration of Oil & Gas Journal in Houston. He is editor of the Weekly E&D Newsletter, emailed to OGJ subscribers, and a regular contributor to the OGJ Online subscriber website.
Petzet joined OGJ in 1981 after 13 years in the Tulsa World business-oil department. He was named OGJ Exploration Editor in 1990. A native of Tulsa, he has a BA in journalism from the University of Tulsa.
