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gas discovery. Block 21 has

Kirinskoye are estimated made the Mavinga #1 pre- to be 162.5 billion cu m of salt oil discovery. The well gas and 19.1MM tons of gas found about 100ft of net oil condensate.

pay. The Mavinga discovery

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First gas is expected to be tied-back from Ruby feld to and become part of the planned Cameia development Production at Indonesia’s complex in Block 21. Ruby feld kicked off Oct. 27.

The feld has been in develop-

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Pavilion Energy in- ment since June 2011 and is vests in Tanzania expected to produce natural

Singapore-based investor gas at a rate of 17,000boe/d.

Pavilion Energy is to take a

Located within the Sebuku 20% in a joint venture part-

Production Sharing Contract nership with Ophir Energy (PSC) 300km south of to develop natural gas fnds

Balikpapan City, Ruby feld in Blocks 1, 3 and 4 off the lies in a water depth of

Tanzanian coast. The deal is 50-100km. Approximately 250 worth a maximum US$1.29

Bcf will be produced for sale billion and is expected to to the domestic market over close in Q1 2014.

the life of the feld.

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Lamprell’s jackup First oil from Balai feld rigs enter the Caspian

Oil production from the Balai

Lamprell has completed feld in the Balai Cluster Risk and delivered the frst of Service Contract (RSC) (RSC) two Caspian Sea jackup area commenced in early rigs following tow out from November. Balai is located the Astrakhan re-assembly in a water depth of 60m yard. The new rig will now (198ft). The feld’s frst oil was start its frst contract in the achieved utilizing an early

Caspian Sea. Good progress production vessel as a part is being made on a second of the RSC area’s extended

Caspian Sea jackup, which is well testing (EWT) program. expected to be delivered in The development area is

Q4 2014. located approximately 100- 130km (60-80mi) northeast of

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Kirinskoye subsea

Bintulu. The EWT is part of production facility online the Balai Cluster pre-develop-

The frst subsea production ment phase and is designed to facility has been brought provide additional production onstream offshore Russia, and reservoir performance

Gazprom announced. The information to support the

Kirinskoye gas and con- feld development planning densate feld, part of the process.

Sakhalin III project, is a

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CNOOC’s Suizhong 36-1 28km subsea tie-back to

Phase II starts production shore, in the Kirinsky block

China’s CNOOC announced in the Sea of Okhotsk. It that the Suizhong 36-1 Phase is in 90m water depth and,

II adjustment project has once fully completed, will commenced production. The comprise seven wells con-

Suizhong 36-1 oil feld is nected to a single manifold, located in the south region from which gas is then trans- of Liaodong Bay in Bohai in ported via pipeline to an an average water depth of onshore processing facility.

Once fully onsteam, pro- approximately 30m. Four duction from Kirinskoye is additional platforms will be estimated to reach 5.5Billion built as part of this adjust- cu m a year. Reserves at ment project.

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