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Arctic problems of the Salinas sub-basin. The

As Shell inches closer to consortia plans to acquire, its Burger drilling program evaluate and reprocess 3D in the Chukchi Sea, the last seismic data with a view to of two drillships, Noble ? rming up drilling locations

Discoverer, left the Port of towards the end of 2016.

Everett, Washington, on 30

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Stone updates

June. The Fennica icebreaker

Cardona vessel, which was to be part

Stone Energy’s Cardona of Shell’s drilling pro-

No. 6 development well, in gram, was forced to head to

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Mississippi Canyon block 29,

Portland, Oregon, to undergo

B has completed drilling. The repairs after its hull was

D well, drilled with the Ensco breeched. Meanwhile, BP 8503, encountered 288ft of and ExxonMobil suspended net pay in two intervals. a Canadian Arctic explora-

The existence of oil in the tion program in the Beaufort pay zones has been con-

Sea region due to insuf? cient ? rmed through logging and time to begin test drilling

E pressure data. The well has before its lease expires in been successfully cased and 2020. ExxonMobil’s af? li- cemented across all produc- ate, Imperial Oil, is seeking tive zones, the subsea tree has to have its current lease been installed and comple- extended to 16 years.

tion operations have begun.

The well will be tied into the Pompano platform via the existing Cardona subsea geared toward the pre-salt.

infrastructure. by Eni (50%) and Repsol condensate. The Alder well is (50%). Cardón IV signed a gas expected to be drilled in 2015

Petrobras also expects to

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Perla onstream sales agreement with PDVSA with the Blackford Dolphin reach 3.7 MMboe/d of oil off Venezuela for all three phases until semisubmersible drilling and gas production (total of

The Fennica ice breaker from

Production has begun at the 2036. rig, with ? rst production is

Brazil and international) by

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