Offshore news

Lundin Petroleum AB has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS has commenced drilling of exploration well 7220/6-3 on the Børselv prospect in PL609 on the Loppa High in the southern Barents Sea.

As stated at the time of submission, Energean Israel owns 100% of the Karish and Tanin Fields, which combined have 2.7 TCF of natural gas and 41 million boe of light hydrocarbon liquids, totalling 531 million boe of 2C resources.

As a result of this agreement, CGG will shortly commence acquisition of a new multi-client survey of up to 40 000 km2 of 3D data over the Beira High in the Zambezi Delta.

The Edradour and Glenlivet development will bring additional production capacity of up to 56 000 boe/d.

Lundin Petroleum AB has announced that Statoil AS has completed the Korpfjell exploration well 7435/12-1 in PL859 in the southeastern Barents Sea. The well proved a small, non-commercial gas discovery.

The Goanna licence is located in the northern part of the Norwegian North Sea, near the border with the UK and adjacent to the giant producing Statfjord and Snorre fields.

Subsea IMR provider, N-Sea, has begun work in the Cameroonian offshore market, via a contract win with Dutch offshore lifting and transportation company, Jumbo Offshore.

Marine and offshore engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore has completed its position keeping role for the Ichthys Venturer FPSO which is now fully moored in Australian waters.

CGG has announced the start of work on Espirito Santo IV, a large BroadSeis™ 3D multi-client survey in the deep and ultra-deep waters of the Espirito Santo Basin offshore Brazil.

Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 124, is about to complete the drilling of wildcat well 6507/8-9.