The JKC joint venture has awarded the BAM Clough joint venture a $A140 million ($151 million) letter of intent for work on the Ichthys LNG project.

Natural gas has started to flow from the Apache/Santos Ltd. Reindeer field offshore Australia in the Carnarvon basin to the Devil Creek onshore processing facility.

A maintenance program is under way in New Zealand’s offshore Taranaki basin that involves stabilizing the pipeline and umbilical that runs from the Kupe field to the associated onshore production station.

Eni has started production from the Kitan oil field in the Timor Sea.

Apache Corp says its Australian subsidiary and partners have sanctioned development of the Chevron-operated Wheatstone LNG project of Western Australia.

Woodside Petroleum says production has started through the FPSO at the heart of the North West Shelf oil redevelopment project.

Hess Australia has awarded Expro a $6 million-plus contract for an offshore appraisal drilling campaign on Australia’s North West Shelf.

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

Buccaneer Energy Ltd. reports that a jackup liftboat is doing wireline workovers on both well in the Pompano field, Gulf of Mexico.