UK: Hurricane picks Lancaster development contractor
March 19, 2012
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.
