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T in the East Prinovozemelskiy Romania, said partner OMV expects to reach 13,000b/d

APAC surveys

TGS will conduct a 3D multi- area, Kara Sea, on 9 August, Petrom. Domino was discov- peak production by 2015.

client survey Nerites Season defying Western-imposed ered in 2012 about 200km

S Macharee-1 2, the largest 3D survey sanctions against Russian offshore. Domino-2 is being spudded

TGS has acquired in the state-owned Rosneft. drilled from the Ocean

Asia Pacifc region, cover-

ExxonMobil is using the Endeavor semisubmersible Seadrill’s West Cressida ing 13,000sq km in the Great semisubmersible drilling drilling rig in about 800m jackup rig spud the

Australian Bight. Nerites 2 rig West Alpha. Rosneft said water depth. The well fol- Mancharee-1 exploration is the second season of the

Universitetskaya contains lows OMV Petrom’s Marina well in Block G10/48 in the

Nerites 3D seismic program 1.3 billion tons oe and that 1 discovery in the Istria XVII Wassana oil feld, Gulf of over blocks EPP44 and about 30 structures have offshore Perimeter (shallow Thailand, said KrisEnergy.

Block G10/48 covers EPP45, which are mainly in been found in three East water) in the Romanian Black 4696sq km over the south- the Bight’s deepwater Ceduna

Prinovozemelskiy areas in the Sea. ern section of the Pattani sub-basin.

Kara Sea, with a resource base

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Panyu enters basin. The Mancharee-1 well, Data acquisition is totaling 87 billion boe. production

While previous sanctions expected to reach a total expected to start 4Q 2014- 1Q

CNOOC started production at forbid the US and EU from depth of 12,420ft, will evalu- 2015 by Dolphin Geophysical.

TGS also started a regulatory its Panyu 10-2/5/8 project in business transactions with ate a series of stacked sand- approval process to under- the Pearl River Mouth Basin sanctioned individuals, stone reservoirs of Miocene take a 17,000km 2D multi- in the South China Sea. The

July’s sanctions specifcally and Oligocene age.

client survey in the Reinga, project includes three oilfelds The plan for the frst phase intend to deny Rosneft from

Northland and Taranaki – Panyu 10-2, Panyu 10-5 and of the Wassana oil feld thriving off Western-based basins, offshore Northwest

Panyu 10-8 – with 100m aver- involves 12 to 14 develop- oil and gas equipment and

New Zealand, expected to age water depth. ment wells connected to a technology.

started in 4Q 2014 and run to

The facilities include one fxed production platform.

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Exxon spuds Domino 2Q 2015, using the M/V Aquila wellhead platform and nine First production is expected

ExxonMobil started drill- producing wells. CNOOC to start in 2H 2015 at a peak

Explorer. OMV’s Whio-1 well ing the deepwater Domino-2 says there are four wells con- rate of 10,000bbl/d. Gross in exploration permit PEP appraisal well in the Black nected, which are producing recovery from Phase 1 is 51312 in the Taranaki basin •

Sea Neptun Block offshore about 9000b/d. The project expected to be 13.6MMbbl.

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