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First oil at Cardamom

Nova ? eld includes the Graben,

Shell started production from

East Flank and Far East blocks.

Discovered in 1984, Terra the Cardamom subsea oil

Nova’s FPSO began produc- and gas ? eld in the Gulf of tion in 2002. The FPSO is a

Mexico (GOM). Located in double-hulled, ice-reinforced

Garden Banks Block 427 about vessel with ? ve thrusters and 362km southwest of off New a global dynamic positioning

Orleans, the ? eld is tied back

C syst em, measuring 292.2m to the Auger platform. Shell long and 45.5m wide. It can estimates its peak production store 960,000bo.

level to be 50,000boe/d. This

AB increases Auger’s production

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Chasing Nicaragua PDVSA reforms capacity to 130,000boe/d,

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E announced

Norway’s Statoil and making it the company’s larg-

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Nicaragua’s DNP-Petronic Venezuelan President Nicolas est net producing platform in signed a cooperation agree- Maduro restructured state oil the GOM. Shell now expects ment for future oil and gas company PDVSA, replacing

Auger to produce for at least Auger to produce for at least activities offshore Nicaragua’s Rafael Ramirez with Eulogio another 15 years.another 15 years.

Paci? c coast. The two sent Paci? c coast. The two sent del Pino.