Asia Offshore Oil & Gas Production News

CNOOC is targeting net production in 2012 of 330-340 MMboe, slightly up on last year’s level.

ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia has ordered gas turbine and compression equipment for Tapis field from Rolls-Royce.

CNOOC has brought onstream the offshore Lufeng (LF) 13-2 adjustment project.

Fred. Olsen Production, in a joint venture with Marubeni Corp., has signed a letter of intent with PetroVietnam Technical Services Corp. for construction and installation of an FPSO for Thang Long and Dong Do fields.

The achievement of first oil from the Peregrino heavy-oil field in Brazil in April marked a major milestone for Statoil, the operator.

EMS Energy Co. has completed a second order for a mobile modular workover unit from Vietsovpetro.

Petronas Carigali and Shell Malaysia have signed a heads of agreement (HOA) concerning enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects offshore Sarawak and Sabah.

PA Resources (PAR) expects first production from the Aseng field off Equatorial Guinea before year-end.

Chevron Corp. has started natural gas production from its Platong II project in the Gulf of Thailand.

Gas production has started from the Gajah Baru field in West Natuna Sea block A offshore Indonesia.

COSCO Corp. (Singapore) Ltd. has delivered the converted FPSO Radiant Jewel to its Japanese owner.

The FPSO Lewek EMAS has produced first oil from the Premier Oil-operated Chim Sáo field off southern Vietnam.

Premier Oil has received a Ready for First Oil Certificate from the FPSO contractor for the Chim Sáo oil field in the Nam Con Son basin offshore southern Vietnam.

Coastal Energy has contracted the jackup Seafox 3 for services in the Gulf of Thailand.

KBR has a letter of award from Hyundai Heavy Industries to provide engineering design and procurement support services for BP’s Quad 204 FPSO project west of Shetland.

Premier Oil expects to start oil production from the Chim Sáo field off southern Vietnam during the next few weeks.

Production has started from the first appraisal well drilled in the Zhanghai block offshore China.

First crude/wet gas has flowed from the Te Giac Trang field (TGT) in the Nam Con Son basin off southern Vietnam.

Keppel Shipyard is on schedule to complete modification and upgrade works on the FPSO OSX-1 for OSX Brasil.

SBM Offshore has contracted Keppel Shipyard to convert the VLCC M/T Concorde Spirit into an FPSO for use offshore Brazil.

The demand for offshore floating production systems is exhibiting strong growth, according to a recent report by International Maritime Associates, Inc (IMA).

Preparations are continuing for the WZ 6-12 and WZ 12-8 West oil development in the Beibu Gulf, offshore China.

CNOOC has re-started production from the four BoZhong 28-2 South oilfields in Bohai Bay.