Iran has inaugurated the first phase of production from the Hengam oil field in the Persian Gulf.
RAK Petroleum has restored production at the Bukha oil and gas field offshore Oman.
Abu Dhabi Marine Operating co. has contracted McDermott International to upgrade and enhance a water injection system in Zakum field for about $350 million.
Around 40% of Iran’s gas consumption this winter will be provided by the Assaluyeh processing terminals handling of production from the South Pars gas/condensate field in the Persian Gulf.
Petrobel has started gas production from the Tuna field in the Temsah concession off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast.
Maersk Oil and Qatar Petroleum have achieved landmark production of 1 Bbbl of oil from the Al Shaheen field offshore Qatar.
Output from the newly launched Phase 19 development of the South Pars field in the Persian Gulf will be 50 MMcf/d, according to Gholamreza Manouchehri, Petropars managing director.
Gas yield from the Ferdowsi and Golshan offshore fields in the North Pars region of the Persian Gulf could reach 60 tcf, according to a report by Iranian news service Shana.
Pars Oil and Gas Company expects to produce 90 bcm from the South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf in the current Iranian year ending March 20, 2011.
Dragon Oil continues to raise production from its Cheleken Contract Area fields in the Turkmen sector of the Caspian Sea.
Iran expects first oil from its $300-million Hengam field development in the Persian Gulf in mid-March.
Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil have started Train 7 of the Ras Laffan 3 LNG project at Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar.
Qatar and Iran expect to draft a master plan to develop gas co-operation initiatives, according to Iran’s petroleum minister Masoud Mirkazemi.
Production is under way from Qatar’s Al Khaleej Gas-Phase 2 (AKG-2) project, according to joint venture partners Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil. Operations began in December, providing 1.25 tcf/d of sales gas capacity.
The Mubarek H2 well offshore Sharjah, UAE, is back onstream, according to Sky Petroleum Inc.
Omani and Iranian oil ministers have re-started talks concerning exports of gas from Iran, according to the country’s Petroenergy Information Network (PIN).
Gas has started flowing from the first phase of the Salman field development in the Persian Gulf, according to Petro Iran Company.
Iran expects to lift its natural gas output by 1 bcf/d early next month when a new platform comes on stream in the Persian Gulf.
Eni has started gas production from the North Bardawil field in the North Bardawil Concession, offshore northern Egypt.
Production has started from Train 6 at Ras Laffan Industrial City in Qatar, according to Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas.
Development of phases 11 to 24 of Iran’s South Pars gas field will require investment of $40 billion, according to the country’s Petroenergy Information Network, Shana.
Iran has inaugurated what it claims is the world’s largest gas injection project, supplied by reserves from the South Pars field in the Persian Gulf.
Iran has offered to buy the entire gas volumes produced from the Shah Deniz field in the Caspian Sea offshore Azerbaijan.
