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After receiving conditional Diamond Offshore’s Ocean approval from the US Bureau Victory semisubmersible drill- of Ocean Energy Management ing rig has arrived in Trinidad this May, Shell will now return and Tobago, destined for the to the Chukchi Sea to drill two Juniper ? eld 50mi off the
Shell’s revised explora- wells. southeast coast of Trinidad.
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Juniper is BP Trinidad and of up to six wells within the
Tobago’s (BPTT) ? rst subsea
Burger Prospect, located in ? eld development, comprising approximately 140ft of water ? ve subsea wells tied into the
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Deep Panuke Exxon hits oil
The well is located 94km production halted off Guyana off the Aracaju coast, 10km
Encana Corp. shut in produc- ExxonMobil con? rmed a from the discovery well and tion from its Deep Panuke signi? cant oil discovery on was drilled to a depth of
G platform off Nova Scotia, the Stabroek Block, 120mi off- 6060m, at a water depth of due to excess of water in the shore Guyana. The well, spud 2988m. Petrobras holds a gas reservoir. Production is on 5 March 2015, encountered 100% interest in the block.
expected to resume 4Q 2015 more than 295ft (90m) of high-
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Big pay when gas demand ramps up. quality oil-bearing sandstone offshore Ireland
The Deep Panuke ? eld is reservoirs. It was drilled to hydrocarbon discovery on the 155mi southeast of Halifax on 17,825ft (5433m) in 5719ft Europa Oil & Gas says an Kraken, are both on track, the high-pressure, high-tempera- the Scotian Shelf. (1743m) of water. independent review of ? rst due to start up mid-2015
Frontier Exploration License and the second in 2017.
ture Xana-1X exploration in the
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Mexico authorizes Drilling delays (FEL) 3/13 estimates it con- The ? rm is preparing to
Danish Sector of the North Sea.
seismic projects at Isobel tains nearly 1.5 billion boe pull in risers on the EnQuest The Xana-1X well was
Mexico’s Comisión Nacional prospective resources based Producer ? oating production, drilled in license 9/95 in 68m
Premier Oil announced oil shows at the Isobel Deep well de Hidrocarburos (CNH) on three prospects, Shaw, storage and of? oading (FPSO) water depth. It reached a total authorized three seismic Beckett and Wilde. FEL 3/13 vessel on the Alma/Galia drilling depth of 5071m in the 14/20-1, in the North Falkland projects. is in the Porcupine Basin, development. Drilling on the Jurassic formation.
Basin, in a high pressure Houston-based TGS offshore West Ireland. Galia production well is to be The well was spudded on formation. The well will now will acquire the Gigante Europa says it is now work- completed and tied in during 8 December by the jackup be cased, delaying the drilling program. The interval will be 181,500km regional 2D seis- ing with operator Kosmos 2H 2015. rig Noble Sam Turner and is mic survey in 2Q 2015. The Energy on a potentially On the Kraken heavy oil currently being plugged and cement plugged before drilling survey will cover the Perdido “play-opening” ? rst well on ? eld FPSO development, abandoned.
through the prognosed Isobel reservoir interval. fold belt and Campeche Bay. Results will FEL