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Global Briefs

Guinea gas felds and has signed a letter of intent with

Petrofac to help it draw up a feld development plan.

Petrofac will provide ser- vices as operator of the pro-

DK posed gas development up to the fnal investment deci-

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Ophir has also held discus-

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McDermott conducts pipeline repair in UAE

McDermott International Inc.

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Thebaud support vessel (DSV) for an emergency pipe-

Sea line repair offshore the United

CERAWeek in Houston in 3 exploration well, in the offshore Cameroon, early Arab Emirates. This is the

Ocean

March to tout the coun- Marine XII block. Nene Marine February, using the  third time in recent months

Confdence try’s new 2014 Round. 3 was drilled in 28m water ffth-generation that the DSV has been fast

Colombia’s Agencia Nacional depth and found a wet gas and semisubmersible drilling rig. tracked to an emergency de Hidrocarburos (ANH) is light oil accumulation in the The well, about 56km off the response.

offering 22 million hectares of pre-salt clastic sequence, out- coast, has an estimated tar-

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Russian giants form acreage both on- and offshore. lining a signifcant extension get depth of 4200m true ver- emergency response pact

Cabrales told press after to the west of the reservoir and tical depth subsea and will his panel appearance at its hydraulic continuity, Eni be drilled in 1600m water Gazprom and LUKOIL

CERAWeek that the country said. During the production depth. Drilling is anticipated signed a cooperation agree- is increasing investment into test in the oil interval, the well to take about 60-70 days. The ment on the prevention of deepwater and ultra-deepwa- fowed more than 5000 b/d at Bamboo prospect is a basin and response to emergen- ter. So far 20 offshore blocks 36° API gravity. Following the foor fan target in the Upper cies caused by oil and petro- have already been awarded results of the well, Eni esti- Cretaceous play, with the leum product spills offshore, in the Caribbean. The 2014 mates that the Nene Marine primary objective estimated including performing joint

Round will offer 13 offshore feld contains 1.2 billion bbl to have a mean un-risked, emergency exercises. blocks, 10 in the Caribbean and 30 billion cu ft of natural gross prospective resource of The companies agreed that and three in the Pacifc. gas in place, with upside. ENI 422MMbbl and 170billion cu in case of emergencies related says it is planning frst pro- ft of gas. to oil and/or petroleum prod-

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Eni enlarges duction from the feld in 2016. uct spills, they would provide

I feld estimates Ophir weighs mutual assistance in response

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Eni has doubled its estimated to such emergencies, with the

Ntem concessions FLNG option size of the Nene Marine Murphy Oil started drilling UK-listed explorer Ophir engagement of professional feld offshore Congo after the Bamboo-1 exploration Energy is considering foating rescue services. drilling the Nene Marine well on the Ntem concessions, LNG to develop its Equatorial Gazprom and LUKOIL will oedigital.com April 2014 | OE 17 016_0414OE_GlobalBriefs.indd 17 3/23/14 9:39 AM