Archive for the ‘Field Start Ups’ Category

Hurricane Energy PLC has sold the first cargo of crude oil from the early production system on Lancaster field in the West of Shetland area offshore the UK. Hurricane says Lancaster is the UK’s first producing basement field.

Production has begun from Culzean gas condensate field in the Central Graben area of the UK North Sea. Development by Total SA and partners involved the drilling of six wells and construction of three bridge-linked platforms and a floating storage and …

TransGlobe Energy Corp., Calgary, plans to bring its South Ghazalat (SGZ)-6X discovery in Egypt’s Western Desert on production at an initial rate of 1,000 b/d of 34° gravity crude oil in this year’s fourth quarter under a newly approved develop lease….

Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has let a contract to McDermott International Inc. for subsea risers and flowlines for the first phase of Sepia field, 174 miles offshore Rio de Janeiro. The first phase is part of a 15-well Sepia field development in…

BP PLC has let an integrated engineering, procurement, construction, and installation contract to TechnipFMC for the Thunder Horse South expansion Phase 2 project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The contract, valued by TechnipFMC at $75-250 million, i…

BP PLC has sanctioned development of Phase 2 of the Thunder Horse South expansion project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The project—which at peak is expected to add 50,000 boe/d gross of production from the existing Thunder Horse platform—is due for…