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license in the Romanian Black

Sea has been plugged and abandoned after failing to ? nd commercial hydrocarbons.

The well, spudded 11 April and drilled to 2747m total depth, was the ? rst explo- ration well drilled by the

Muridava concession owners.

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Woodside Energy has axed its

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Total’s CLOV First oil single column of 289m of gas Work to transport a 10,250-ton in production off East Africa was encountered within the central processing plat-

The CLOV ? oating produc- targeted Cretaceous reservoir BG Group made t he ? rst oil form topside section for the tion storage and of? oad- interval. Due to the size of the discovery off East Africa in Vladimir Filanovsky ? eld ing (FPSO) development, gas column, Ophir said the the Sunbird-1 exploration in the Russian sector of the located in Block 17 offshore discovery could be extended well, off the southern Kenyan Caspian Sea has started. The

Angola, began production into a similarly-sized second coast. A 14m gross oil column Russian Maritime Register on schedule. The develop- compartment to the west. was found beneath a 2936m of Shipping said the topside ment is expected to reach

Read more about Tanzania on gross gas column in a reefal was transferred from the quay daily production capacity page 58. limestone reservoir in the to the Yury Kuvykina barge

Sunbird Miocene Pinnacle at the sub-assembly yard in of 160,000bbl in the coming

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Reef in area L10A. The top of Ilyinka, Astrakhan region. The starts up the Sunbird Miocene Pinnacle second stage facility of the V. 34 wells and eight mani-

Circle Oil has started drilling Reef was reached at 1583.7m Filanovsky ? eld development folds connected by 180km of exploration well EMD-1 on subsea, in 723m water depth. - an ice-resistant ? xed plat- subsea pipelines to an FPSO the offshore Mahdia Permit The 43.6m gross hydrocarbon form (IFP 2) - was laid down unit in 1110-1400m water using the drillship PetroSaudi bearing zone is assessed to at OOO Galaktika shipyard, depth.

Discoverer. The well is near contain a net pay thickness of Astrakhan.

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Tanzanian gas Kashagan including the Tazerka, Birsa, ancient Miocene pinnacle reef frozen for 2014

BG Group made a new gas Oudna, and Halk El Menzel buried beneath approximately discovery in Block 1 in oil ? elds, and the Maamoura 900m of younger sediment, North Caspian Operating the Ma? a Deep basin off gas ? eld. The well is planned says Pancontinental. Read Co. BV (NCOC), the seven-

Tanzania.The Taachui-1 well’s to test the play potential of more on Kenya on page 60. company consortium behind net pay amounted to 155m, the El Mediouni prospect, Kashagan development,

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Muridava plugged with estimates for the mean including the primary Birsa con? rmed that production recoverable resource placed at Sands target and the second- Petroceltic International’s is not expected to resume 1Tcf. Deepsea Metro I drilled ary fractured carbonates of the Muridava-1 exploration well in 2014. Both oil and gas to 4215m total depth, and a Ketatna Formation. on the Muridava (EX-27) lines might have to be fully oedigital.com July 2014 | OE 17 016_OE0714_GlobalBriefs.indd 17 6/20/14 10:56 AM