Archive for the ‘Field Start Ups’ Category

BP PLC has let a contract to TechnipFMC to provide integrated engineering, procurement, construction, and installation services for the Atlantis Phase 3 project in the Gulf of Mexico. BP recently approved a $1.3-billion expansion at the field. BP opera…

Total SA and its partners have started production from Egina oil field, which lies in 1,600 m of water 150 km offshore Nigeria. The field, at plateau, will produce 200,000 b/d of oil, which represents about 10% of Nigeria’s production.

PAO Novatek started commercial crude oil production from Yaro-Yakhinskoye field in the Purovsky district of Russia’s Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region. Oil production capacity of the field, which was developed by Arcticgas, a joint venture of Novatek and…

Vandumbu field started producing oil on deepwater Block 15/06 offshore Angola in November, 3 months ahead of schedule, reported operator Eni SPA. Production at Vandumbu field, along with the start-up of a subsea multiphase boosting system (SMBS) in ear…

Equinor will work with partners and suppliers to bring on stream Phase 3 of giant Troll oil and gas field in the Norwegian North Sea in the first half of 2021 following approval of its development and operation plan.

DeNovo Energy Ltd., a subsidiary of Germany’s Proman AG, reported start of natural gas production from Iguana field offshore the west coast of Trinidad and Tobago in the Gulf of Paria. Once fully operational Iguana is expected to produce 80 MMcfd.

PetroTal Corp., Calgary and Houston, is moving a rig to Bretana field on Block 95 for a three-well program beginning next year after starting production from the Bretana Norte discovery well. The company said the well is producing more than 2,000 b/d o…

A second production well completed from the wellhead platform installed during second-phase development of Yury Korchagin oil field flowed at an initial rate of 600 tonnes/day of crude oil, reports Lukoil.