Archive for the ‘Field Start Ups’ Category

ADNOC Offshore has started production from full development of Umm Lulu and Satah Al Razboot (SARB) oil fields offshore Abu Dhabi, reports partner OMV AG. Initial capacity is 50,000 b/d of oil. Production will rise to 129,000 b/d by yearend and to 215,…

BW Offshore has started oil production from the BW Adolo floating production, storage, and offloading vessel installed in Tortue field in the Dussafu license offshore Gabon, 18 months after the initial investment was made. The BW Adolo FPSO arrived in …

McDermott International has finished laying pipe for Woodside Petroleum Inc.’s Greater Western Flank Phase 2 project offshore Western Australia from the Goodwyn A platform to manifold locations for Lady Nora and Pemberton fields. Phase 2 gas production…

Equinor started production from an improved oil recovery project in Visund Nord field in the Norwegian North Sea, adding an anticipated 13.3 million bbl at a development cost of 1.3 billion kroner. The additional production is 6% more than originally e…

Continental Resources Corp., Oklahoma City, completed two STACK wells to the Meramec formation from the same pad in Custer County, Okla., drilling partner FIG Tree Capital Ventures reported.

Energy World Corp. Ltd., Hong Kong, has finalized an agreement with the Australian government under which the government will provide as much as $2 million (Aus.) in funding to be used to accelerate the recommissioning of two gas fields in southwest Qu…

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has consented to the September production start of the Equinor-operated Oseberg H facility on the Norwegian Shelf. The development increases the recoverable reserves in Oseberg by 17.6 million standard cu m of oil eq…

Goodrich Petroleum updated completion results on two wells in Louisiana’s Bethany-Longstreet field in DeSoto Parish. Wurtsbaugh 35 No. 1 (71% working interest), which came online in July, achieved a 24-hr peak rate of 22.5 MMcfd. Demmon 34 No. 1 (89% w…

Horizon Petroleum has signed a farm-in agreement on Lachowice natural gas field in the Bielsko-Biala concession in southern Poland, a concession the company is in the process of acquiring.

Gazpromneft-Angara reports commercial oil flow from the first horizontal well drilled in Ignyalinskoye oil and gas condensate field in eastern Siberia. After multistage fracturing, the well flowed more than 120 tonnes/day, the company said.