Production

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April 28, 2023
The company expects Uaru, the fifth project on Guyana’s offshore Stabroek block, to add approximately 250,000 bbl of daily capacity after a targeted startup in 2026.
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April 27, 2023
The new well is expected to produce approximately 4,000 boed, enough gas to heat approximately 200,000 UK homes. Together with the 10th well which started up earlier this year, the Cygnus facility is expected to produce enough gas per day to meet the needs of around 1.9 million UK households.
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April 27, 2023
BW Offshore Limited has signed a short-term extension for the lease and operation of the FPSO Espoir Ivoirien in order to discuss a potential purchase of the FPSO by the client.
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April 27, 2023
The P-82 FPSO will be one of the largest vessels to be deployed in the Búzios field, an ultra-deepwater oil and gas field covering an area of 853 square kilometers in the Santos Basin, around 180 kilometers off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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April 18, 2023
“This additional supply is crucial to the UK’s energy security and reduces our reliance on imports as we transition to net zero," said OEUK’s market intelligence manager Ross Dornan.
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April 18, 2023
Substantial modifications were made to the Haewene Brim floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO), which is used to produce hydrocarbons at the Pierce field. A new subsea gas export line was also installed, connecting to the SEGAL pipeline system, which brings gas ashore at St Fergus, north of Aberdeen.
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April 17, 2023
The Sakarya field will supply 10 MMcm per day in its first phase, rising to a peak of 40 MMcm by 2027-28 in the second stage, state-run producer Turkish Petroleum AO said.
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April 17, 2023
Bauge consists of two oil producers in a subsea template, in addition to pipelines and an umbilical connecting the wells to the Njord A platform.
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April 13, 2023
With a gross production capacity of up to 140,000 bopd, Argos is bp’s fifth platform in the Gulf of Mexico and the first new bp-operated production facility in the region since 2008.
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April 13, 2023
The two countries have been negotiating development of the block in the Atlantic Ocean for about 15 years. A company owned by Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler previously held shares in the block.
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April 10, 2023
Initial steps to resume full operations will involve filling the San Pedro Bay pipeline with production, a process which began over the past weekend and is expected to take approximately two weeks to complete.
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April 10, 2023
The Hibiscus / Ruche Phase 1 drilling campaign targets four Hibiscus Gamba and two Ruche Gamba wells which are expected to add approximately 30,000 bpd of total oil production when all wells are completed in early 2024.
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April 07, 2023
The FPSO Firenze will allow production start-up of the Baleine field, which is the largest hydrocarbon discovery in Côte d'Ivoire to date, with an estimated oil in place of 2.5 Bbbl and 3.3 trillion cubic feet of associated gas.
News
April 04, 2023
Karoon advises that Baúna production, including from the Patola field, was shut-in at 17:00 on March 28 in a safe and controlled manner, due to a loss of containment incident associated with the high pressure flare on the FPSO, Cidade de Itajaí.
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April 04, 2023
During the FEED engineering, KBR will continue to help Equinor develop one of the lowest carbon emitting FPSO's in the world, using an onboard combined cycle power system and the latest technology to minimize the number of crew onboard and maximize digital solutions.
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April 04, 2023
The FPSO’s design incorporates SBM Offshore’s Fast4Ward newbuild, multi-purpose hull. It will be the largest oil producing unit in Brazil with a processing capacity of 225,000 boe and 12 million m3 of gas per day.
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March 2023
A cross-sector collaboration between suppliers and project partners to design rigs at the concept stage for tie-back will be beneficial. This approach enables the industry to move from sequential development stages toward simultaneous drilling and platform construction to accelerate timelines.
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March 30, 2023
The Guluc-2 well discovered 73 meters of gas pay across 14 separate intervals. Current flow test results and production is from only 6 meters of gas pay; 67 meters remains to be perforated in the future ensuring a long-term production horizon for the well.
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March 29, 2023
The NSTA is determined to assist industry in its role of ensuring domestic energy security and has opened a consultation on new guidance which aims to streamline the buying and selling of assets.
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March 28, 2023
The West Akcakoca well's two lower “D” sands with a combined total of 7 meters of natural gas pay were perforated on March 24, 2023. These two zones were flow tested at a rate of 5.9 MMcf/day. Shut-in pressure was 1620 psi.
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