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Global 15.6MM tonnes/year to feed lique- fed natural gas into the markets by Deepwater 2015. The project also includes the

Deep Water world’s largest carbon capture and

Review storage project. water platform, which in turn will be Chevron (operator) continue to focus

Europe connected by pipeline to an onshore on the Gorgon project. The develop- gas plant. ment is one of the largest natural gas Off the Shetland Islands lies the

The Liuhua 34-2 feld will be de- projects in the world and includes Rosebank oil and gas feld in Blocks veloped in parallel with the Liwan fve felds: Gorgon, Chrysaor, Diony- 213/26 and 213/27 of production 3-1 feld. Gas production from the sus, West Tryal Rocks, and Spar. license 1026. Chevron is the opera-

Liuhua 29-1 feld will share common The Gorgon feld has eight wells. tor of the feld with 40% interest; gas processing and transportation First gas is expected in 2014, and is partners include Statoil (30%), OMV infrastructure with Liwan 3-1 and intended to supply Osaka Gas, Tokyo (20%), and Dong Exploration & Pro-

Liuhua 34-2 and is expected to be Gas, GS Caltex, Chubu Electric, and duction (10%).

onstream in 2014. Nippon Oil Corp. The project is 55% Rosebank is considered one of the

Off western Australia, Shell and complete and is expected to produce biggest prospects in the UK Conti- nental Shelf and Chevron plans to invest about $7 billion in its devel- opment.

The project is currently in the front-end engineering and design (FEED) stage. A fnal investment de- cision for the project is expected in 2013, followed by a drilling program in 2015. First production is expected in 2017. Chevron North Sea Ltd. awarded WorleyParsons and its IN-

TECSEA subsidiary a FEED contract for new facilities associated with

Rosebank feld. In April, Hyundai

Heavy Industries won a $1.9 bil- lion order for a 99,750-tonne turret moored FPSO for Rosebank. Delivery is expected November 2016.

Exploration efforts off Norway con- tinue to please operators. Statoil is preparing to install a platform at the

Aasta Hansteen gas feld, formerly

Luva, in Blocks 6706/12, 6707/10, about 186mi. (300km) offshore in 4,265ft (1,300m) water-depth. The platform will be the frst of its kind on the NCS with a production capac- ity of about 800MMcf/d.

Earlier this year, Italian energy company Eni secured a license to explore new acreage in the Barents

Sea. The license covers about 160sq mi, east of Eni’s Goliat feld. Also,

Statoil and its partners Eni Norge and Petoro drilled a discovery well

Technip’s TLP graphic illustrates the plan for on the Havis prospect in the Bar- development of Shell‘s Malikai project. ents Sea, estimated to hold at least

Source: Technip 200MMboe.

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