Archive for the ‘Field Start Ups’ Category

A well drilled to assess potential of the western flank of Taq Taq oil field in the Kurdish region of Iraq is on production, reports Genel Energy. The TT-20z horizontal sidetrack well started production at an initial rate of 2,000 b/d through a 24/64-i…

Energean Oil & Gas started production at a stabilized, restricted rate of 1,000 b/d of oil from an extended-reach well development well in Epsilon field in the Aegean Sea offshore Greece. The EA-H3 well, drilled to 5,679 m TMD in about 30 m of…

Gazprom Neft subsidiary Gazprom Neft Middle East BV has commissioned a third production well in Sarqala field in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Potential production from Sarqala-3 is estimated at 12,000 b/d of oil. Cumulative production from the field h…

Total SA has started production on Kaombo Sul, the second floating production, storage, and offloading vessel of the Kaombo oil development offshore Angola. Operated by Total E&P Angola, the project lies on Block 32 in 1,400-2,000 m of water about …

Mexico’s Tampico-Misantla super basin, which includes Chicontepec, is well known geologically but its remaining oil and natural gas potential has yet to be properly evaluated, a former executive vice-president of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) told an Ame…

Mexico’s Tampico-Misantla super basin, which includes Chicontepec, is well known geologically but its remaining oil and natural gas potential has yet to be properly evaluated, a former executive vice-president of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) told an Ame…

Equinor reported “the heaviest lift ever performed offshore” at Johan Sverdrup oil field under development in the Norwegian North Sea. The company also let a construction installation contract for the second development phase to TechnipFMC.

Spirit Energy Ltd. and its partners started oil production from Oda field, which lies in 65 m of water 13 km east of Ula in production license 405 in the North Sea, on Mar. 16, about 5 months ahead of schedule.

Iran has commissioned four more phases of offshore South Pars natural gas field. Phases 13 and 22-24 have production capacities of 56 million cu m/day, 75,000 b/d of condensate, and 400 tonnes/day of sulfur each.

Cooper Energy Ltd., Adelaide, has completed the offshore construction phase of its wholly owned Sole gas field development in Bass Strait. The company said installation and testing of the 67-km control umbilical connecting the field’s two subsea produc…