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Mad Dog Phase 2 country’s oil and gas industry under development to private and foreign invest-

Following BP’s September ment through production announcement that it was sharing agreements and licens- canceling its massive Mad ing. President Enrique Pena

Dog contract, the supermajor Nieto’s ruling PRI and opposi- is now working with part- tion party PAN presented a ners Chevron Corp. and BHP united front against Mexican

Billiton Petroleum to develop leftist party PRD, passing the

Phase 2. BP is reportedly energy reform bill by a vote entering topsides pre-front of 95 to 28 in the Mexican end engineering and design Senate on Wednesday. phase for different options to

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Trinity spuds determine which is the most

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Trinity Exploration &

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Noble Energy makes

Production spudded the El

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Dorado exploration prospect,

Noble Energy hit a deepwater located offshore the west coast discovery offshore the Gulf of of Trinidad in the PGB license

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Mexico. The Dantzler explora- in 6ft of water. The well is tion well, located 12m west of 2km from Trinity-operated

H the frm’s Rio Grande develop- production infrastructure. ment in Mississippi Canyon Trinity is operating the well 782, has encountered over and holds a 70% working 120ft of net pay, mainly crude interest in the prospect. El oil, in two Miocene reservoirs. Dorado well is testing an

The well was drilled to a total undrilled fault block on the depth of 19234ft in 6580ft west fank of the Trinity- of water. Discoveries at the operated producing Brighton

Dantzler well are estimated feld. between 55-95 MMboe. Barents Sea. Well 7220/7-2 S, S.A. (HRT), BW Offshore has press time, the company has

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Aibel on Kristin/ drilled by the semisubmers- the intention to acquire half not yet rescheduled the auc-

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BSEE cites 12 for Polarled project ible rig West Hercules, proved of HRT’s stake. BW Offshore tion round.

SEMS non-compliance

Aibel will modify the Kristin a 22m gas column and a 23m owns and operates the FPSO

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Topside installation

Brian Salerno, director of semisubmersible platform in oil column in the Jurassic Polvo, operating under a frm underway on the Bureau of Safety and the Norwegian Sea as part of Tubåen formation, and a 133m contract until Q3 2014, with

Caribbean FLNG

Environmental Enforcement a project to connect it to the oil column in the Triassic additional options until Q3 (BSEE), cited 12 Gulf of new Polarled pipeline. The Fruholmen formation - a new 2022. The feld was brought The installation of topsides

Mexico operators for failure contract, worth approximately play model in the area. Statoil onstream in 2007, with a 2013 liquefaction equipment has to comply with the Safety and NOK200 million (approxi- estimates the volumes in Skavl year-to-date production of begun on the Caribbean FLNG

Environmental Management mately US$3.2 million) , was to be in the range of 20-50 about 12000 bbl/d. project that will be in service

Systems (SEMS) requirements awarded as a part of Aibel and million barrels of recoverable offshore Colombia, EPCIC

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Peru suspends of the Workplace Safety Rule, Statoil’s framework agreement oil. contractor Wison Offshore & offshore bid round 30 CFR Subpart S regulations on maintenance and modifca- Marine Ltd. announced. The

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BW Offshore put into place during October tions to Kristin. State-run Perupetro sus- company said the vessel will enters Polvo feld 2010, following the Deepwater pended auctions for nine be the world’s frst FLNG in

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Statoil hits

Horizon incident. BW Offshore has signed a blocks located in the Pisco, operation. Topsides equip- in the Barents letter of intent to acquire 30% Lima, Mollendo and Trujillo ment will utilize the PRICO

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Statoil ASA and partners Eni of the Polvo oil feld, located because the companies technology, supplied by

Mexican congress passes energy bill

Norge AS and Petoro AS made in the Campos basin in Brazil. involved submitted requests subcontractor Black & Veatch,

Mexico’s senate approved a an oil and gas discovery in Following the ongoing sale of to alter their respective terms. to liquefy natural gas. Owner new energy reform bill on the Skavl prospect in PL532, BP’s stake in the Polvo feld to Perupetro began marketing Exmar will operate the vessel

Wednesday that will open the close to Johan Castberg in the HRT Participações em Petróleo the blocks in early May. As of offshore Colombia.

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