Toreador tests the Akcakoca-3 well offshore Turkey
Toreador Resources Corp. with joint venture partners, TPAO (the Turkish national oil company) and Stratic Energy Corp., production tested the shallowest of seven potential pay zones in the Akcakoca-3 well in Turkish waters of the Black Sea.
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TAQA takes BP's Dutch interests
Abu Dhabi oil company is new operator of BP's Dutch North Sea production interests
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Roxar will supply its subsea Wetgas meters to Cameron's Subsea Systems division
Roxar will supply its subsea Wetgas meters to Cameron's Subsea Systems division. Cameron will install one Roxar subsea Wetgas meter per well in the Rosetta gas field, offshore Egypt. The joint venture, Rashid Petroleum Company (Rashpetco) and BG Group, has developed and operated the Rosetta field.
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Al Khaleej phase 2 agreement signed
A development plan for Al Khaleej Gas-Phase 2 was signed by ExxonMobil Middle East Gas Marketing Ltd., Qatar, and Qatar Petroleum.
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1st production tripod going into Turkish Black Sea
Toreador Resources Corp. and its partners, TPAO (the Turkish national oil company) and Stratic Energy Corp., have begun installation of the first production tripod in its South Akcakoca sub-basin project offshore Turkey in the Black Sea.
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Toreador aims for first gas production from Turkey's South Akcakoca sub-basin
Toreador Resources Corp. says that 2006 development plans and budgets for the South Akcakoca sub-basin natural gas project, located offshore Turkey in the Black Sea, were unanimously approved by the project's joint operating committee.
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Libya ramps up production via platform/floater combo
Onshore fields provide the bulk of Libya's oil and gas production, the sole exception being Agip's Bouri. The government, however, is keen to step up activity offshore, mindful of Egypt's drilling success in the Mediterranean.
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FRANCE: Engineering role for Doris in four phases of South Pars
In March, TotalFinaElf and partners Gazprom and Petronas brought onstream Phases 2 and 3 of the South Pars gasfield in the Iranian sector of the Persian Gulf.
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S. Pars Comes Onstream
South Pars phases 2 and 3 came onstream off Iran in the Persian Gulf. Operator TotalFinaElf, Gazprom, and Petronas expect the $2 billion project in 70 meters water depths to plateau production of 2 Bcf/d of gas and 80,000 b/d of condensate from 20 wells tied to two unmanned platform.
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PIPELINE TECHNOLOGY: Automatic earthquake-actuated device can shut down pipeline valve system
Building a detection, activation algorithm
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Turkmenistan shedding complex licensing process
Lam and Zdhanov lie on trend with numerous other fields in the productive Aspheron Sill. [63,445 bytes] Block II and its export system to the Cheleken Peninsula. [30,351 bytes] Probable future export routes in the Caspian/Black Sea regions. [65,635 bytes] 1. Connection into existing Russian trunkline including Tengiz to Novorossiysk announced May 1997. 2. Announced pipelines by BP consortium. Southern pipeline under construction, northern pipeline completed. 3. Gas pipeline into Turkey and Iran
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Norway improving tax conditions for FPSO leasing
Aker Maritime's Buoyform concept is aimed at small fields. [23,672 bytes] The tentech FPSO design has been further developed to include a drilling capability. [53,878 bytes] Fred Olsen Production's Fobox is intended for ultra deepwater developments. [19,054 bytes] The floating production market in Norway is expected to receive a boost before long with a change in the tax system that will bring fiscal neutrality for licensees between owning and leasing floating production systems.
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Occidental affirms commitment to exploration and development
Occidental's latest addition to the Dutch Continental Shelf installations, the K11-PB platform, during load-out at the Schelde yard in Vlissingen. [Photo courtesy Occidental Netherlands] Two rig years of drilling work, preparations for compression and evaluation of recent exploration drilling are making 1996 an active year for Occidental Netherlands. Dutch gas prices, however, remain a serious worry. "We are now receiving less for our gas in real terms than ever since the oil crisis of
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DEEPWATER EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION Floating production facilities key to lower cost deepwater development
Peter Behrenbruch BHP Petroleum Enserch's Garden Banks 388 floating production unit (not storage), along with Petrobras' new Marlim production semisubmersibles, continue to push the limits for mooring spreads. Thirteen different FPSO mooring configurations, derived from four basic units, are in use today. (Source: Behrenbruch, modified after Goodfellow) Table: Geographical distribution of floating production facilities. Table: Applications of floating production facilities. Table:
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MIDDLE EAST Saudi Aramco's mammoth Safaniya, NAPR recompletion project concluded
(Photo courtesy of Saudi Aramco) It has taken something more than the initially projected three-years, but Saudi Aramco has successfully concluded one of the offshore petroleum industry's largest revitalization projects - the expansion and renewal of its vast, 90,000 sq km Northern Area Producing Region (NAPR). Encompassing virtually the entire Saudi sector of the Arabian/Persian Gulf, with the exception of the Neutral Zone, the NAPR was divided into three project phases - Marjan, Zuluf,
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MIDDLE EAST Oman's long-delayed Bukha Field onstream, gas projects on horizon
Dev George Managing Editor - International Said bin Ahmed Al-Shanfari, Oman's Minister of Petroleum & Minerals. Oman's Bukha Field lies adjacent to Iran's Henjam Field in the Strait of Hormuz. The Sultanate of Oman officially became an offshore producer a year ago. In April, 1994, the International Petroleum Corporation (IPC) of Vancouver, Canada brought its Bukha Field onstream.
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