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Commercial production paramount importance to began at Sapinhoá ? eld the success of the project,” in January. Located in said Dr Sunil Bharati, block BM-S-9 in Brazil’s spokesman for Cairn pre-salt region, the ? rst India.

producing well, Guara-1,

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FPSO Cidade de São commissioning

Paulo. Guara-1 has a Cegelec Oil & Gas Services potential production rate won two commissioning of 25,000b/d. With more contracts in January for wells to be connected to the Ichthys project off the FPSO, a production the coast of Western rate of 120,000b/d could Australia. Under the be achieved by 1H 2014. scope of the three-year contracts, Cegelec will

M perfor pre-commissioning Cyprus entry Cyprus entry

A consortium made up of and commissioning

Eni and Kogas has won engineering of both three deepwater blocks the offshore central during the Republic of processing facility and the

Cyprus’s second offshore Ichthys FPSO. Production

P licensing round. The at Ichthys is expected to PSVM starts production PSVM starts production consortium walked away begin by 2016.

Production has begun from BP and Sonangol’s PSVM with blocks 2, 3, and 9 development in block 31, off Angola. The PSVM

S in the Cypriot deepwater Arctic pact Arctic pact development, BP’s second operated development in the portion of the Levantine ExxonMobil and Rosneft country, consists of four oil ? elds: Plutão, Saturno, Vénus,

Basin, which spans signed a new pact and Marte. Three wells at the Plutão ? eld are expected to 15,530 sq km. Eni will last month, enabling increase production at PSVM to approximately 70,000b/d operate the blocks with ExxonMobil to gain seven of oil. Production will increase to 150,000b/d once Saturno 80% interest; Kogas holds new exploration blocks and Venus ? elds along with Marte ? eld come online.

the remaining 20%. This in the Chukchi, Laptev is Eni’s ? rst foray into Marine delivered Noble’s 54 days, averaging a speed and Kara Seas, an area

Cyprus. Tamar jacket to the eastern of 6.9 knots. Fairmount totaling 600,000 sq km.

Mediterranean last month. Summit and Fairmount In turn, Rosneft will

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The 18,500-ton Alpine assisted with have the option to take Valhall in Valhall in jacket was built in launching and installation 25% of ExxonMobil’s production

Production has Corpus Christi, Texas, activities once the jacket Point Thomson Unit begun at BP’s Valhall and traveled 9000 miles reached its destination, servicing the natural gas redevelopment project from the US on Heerema Noble’s Tamar gas ? eld and condensate ? eld on in the Norwegian North Marine Contractor’s H-851 southeast of Cyprus. Alaska’s North Slope.

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T to increase Valhall’s life Marine’s tugs, Fairmount HPHT HPHT Restoring Restoring span by an additional 40 Summit and Fairmount technology to India Terra Nova years. Current capacity Alpine. The voyage took Cairn India contracted Suncor Energy resumed is set at 120,000b/d of oil GE Oil & Gas to supply production at the largest and 143mmcf/d of gas. the Ravva oil and gas ? eld of three drill centers at

BP expects production to off the coast of Andhra the Terra Nova complex, increase to 65,000boe/d by Pradesh with HPHT off Newfoundland, 2H 2013. wellhead technology, following the completion mudline systems, spare of dockside maintenance.

O units and services for A second drill center was Tamar jacket Tamar jacket the ? eld. “We see HPHT connected in January delivery

Rotterdam-based technology as a key for the and is currently being transporter Fairmount next stage of development, commissioned.

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