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Contract Briefs

Cobalt has hit several The steel will be used in between 4000b/d and hundred feet of net oil the 1600t Cygnus Alpha 10,000b/d. Recoverable

Subsea 7 won a

US$150 million EPCI topsides pay at its deepwater North Wellhead Platform, the oil reserves at the ? eld are contract for Chevron’s Lianzi

Platte prospect in the Gulf ? rst of four. GDF Suez estimated at 360 million ? eld offshore Congo and of Mexico. Drilling was a E&P operates the Cygnus barrels.

Angola. Subsea 7 will provide a long time coming for the partnership with 39.75%

Q 200t module hosting a company after operations interest. Its partners Jacket bound Jacket bound high-voltage generation were postponed following include Centrica (48.75%) for Iran system for the new subsea the 2010 moratorium. and Baynerngas (12.5%). Iranian Offshore electrically heated pipeline

The well was drilled to Engineering & Construction

N cable, 80t ? ow-meter deck 34,500ft TD in Garden announced that its 3300t Ob River Ob River extension, and platform

Banks block 959. jacket is bound for South delivers upgrades.

The Gazprom-chartered Pars ? eld. The 67m high

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Ob River LNG carrier has jacket will be installed Caribbean pact Caribbean pact Expro has landed its ? rst subsea supply contract

Anadarko and state-owned successfully completed 115km off Asalouyeh, Iran, in India. The three-year

Ecopetrol have announced the ? rst-ever delivery in 61m of water.

contract involves the supply a 50:50 venture to explore through the Northern

R 3 8 of two 7/in electro-hydraulic the Fuerte Norte and Sur Sea Route. The carrier’s Yacheng ? eld Yacheng ? eld blocks off Colombia in the journey began in early completion landing strings snapped up systems and two sets of

Caribbean Sea. November at the Snohvit BP has pulled out of terminal in Hammerfest, Yacheng gas ? eld in topside controls equipment.

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Norway, and ended at the the South China Sea, Grane install Grane install Wartsila has been contracted by China Oil? eld

Reef Subsea will install Tobata terminal in Japan selling its 34.3% stake to

Services to supply designs for a full seismic system in December. Russian KUFPEC, a subsidiary of six new ships, two platform at Grane in an effort to nuclear icebreakers KPC, for US$308 million. supply vessels, and four increase oil recovery at assisted the carrier through Pending approval by anchor-handling tug supply the ? eld, located 185km the Northern Sea Route in CNOOC, the deal is vessels for the South China off Haugesund, Norway. mid-November. expected to close 2H 2013.

Sea and Bohai Bay.

The contract includes the ? See feature, page 49.

S installation and burial of Guinea partner Guinea partner Aker Solutions has

O nearly 200km of seismic Tullow has farmed-in on landed more Ichthys LNG Exploring the Exploring the cables. The contract, 40% of Houston-based work. McDermott handed the

Arctic Circle awarded by Statoil, is Faroe Petroleum has won Hyperdynamics’ offshore ? rm a US$90 million worth US$35.8 million acreage in the Dreiki area on Guinea concession. A new (NKr500 million) contract to deliver a subsea tie-in and is expected to span the Icelandic Continental drilling program, testing connector for the Western 2013/14. Shelf. Faroe will operate a deepwater fan prospect,

Australia project. Delivery is seven license blocks south is slated to begin 1 April

L expected 2013/14.

of the Jan Mayen Ridge 2014. Hyperdynamics and New Zealand New Zealand inside the Arctic Circle Dana Petroleum hold 37%

EMGS has signed a block winners

US$12 million data acquisition

Anadarko was a winner northeast of Iceland. Faroe and 23%, respectively.

contract extension with in New Zealand’s offshore will hold 67.5% interest in

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Brazil’s Petrobras. Data block offerings in 2012. blocks IS6708/8, 9, 10, 11 Dual hits Dual hits acquisition is underway and

Anadarko walked away and 12 along with partners Chevron and its 50:50 should be completed by the with two permits in the Petoro (25%) and Iceland joint partner Shell have end of this month.

Pegasus Basin south of Petroleum. Faroe will scored two gas ? nds in

Wellington. Shell and operate blocks IS6708/1 and the Exmouth Plateau

Rosneft and ExxonMobil partners OMV and Mitsui 2 with 90% interest with of the Carnavon Basin have established a joint project came away with one block Iceland Petroleum (10%). off Western Australia. to assess the commerciality in the Great South Basin Pinhoe-1, drilled to of tight oil reserves in the

P off Dunedin. 13,396ft TD, encountered

Bazhenov and Achimov Lukoil goes Lukoil goes formations of Western Siberia. 197ft of net gas pay in the horizontal

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ExxonMobil will provide Cutting steel Cutting steel Lukoil has conducted Barrow and Mungaroo ? nancing up to US$300 million

Heerema Fabrication a four-well horizontal Sands. The Arnhem-1, for the program. Drilling is to

Group has cut ? rst steel drilling campaign at the drilled to 9557ft TD, hit begin in 2013.

for the US$2.26 billion Yu Korchagin ? eld in the 149ft of net gas pay in the

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