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facility from the Remontowa

Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, is due in Q1, with commis- sioning works underway under contractor Petrofac. under contractor Petrofac.

Ithaca says full completion Ithaca says full completion of the commissioning works while the vessel is in the yard is key to avoiding an extended period of more complicated off- shore commissioning activities.

Offshore, installation of

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M well Stella development drill- ing campaign had already been

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Eni taps more

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Eni has completed track well

GU2-Dir A at the Guendalina

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Adriatic, offshore Italy. The side track reached a planned

G total depth of 3276m. All target horizons within the

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Pliocene were gas-bearing

T and penetrated in an up-dip position with anticipated sector of the North Sea. SNE discovery, which FAR pre-salt Marine XII block is to reservoir characteristics.

According to the NPD, the estimates to be approximately be about 5.8 billion boe. Additionally, two deeper gas project is on schedule with 200 MMbbl. levels were encountered that

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Cairn spuds SNE-2 costs slightly increased com- have been perforated as part

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Kosmos in pared to initial estimates. Cairn Energy has spud the of a dual string completion.

Mauritania ? nd

Edvard Grieg is on the ? rst appraisal well on the SNE The rig moved off location and

Kosmos Energy has hit natural

Utsira High, about 35km oil ? eld 100km off Senegal. production has now resumed. gas at its Marsouin-1 explo- south of the Grane and Balder The SNE-2 well will be Total production from the ? eld ration well, off Mauritania, ? elds. It is being developed drilled in approximately is stabilized at approximately marking its second signi? cant using a stand-alone process- 1100m of water and drilled 440,000 scm/d gross.

discovery in the area.

to 2770m TDVSS before an ing platform on a steel-jacket

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BP fast-tracks Atoll evaluation program including Marsouin-1 is in the structure.

The oil will be transported northern part of the C8 logging, coring and ? ow test- BP and the Egyptian govern- via pipeline (EGOP) to the block. The well, drilled with ing is undertaken. ment have signed a heads of

Grane oil pipeline and on to the Atwood Achiever rig, Three evaluation wells, agreement to rapidly progress the Sture Terminal north of encountered 70m (230ft) of SNE-2, SNE-3 and BEL-1, will the development of the Atoll

Bergen. The gas will be trans- net gas pay in Upper and be drilled back-to-back in a deepwater ? eld off Egypt.

ported via a separate pipeline Lower Cenomanian intervals program that is expected to The deal will enable ? rst (UHGP), which is tied-in to comprised of excellent quality complete in mid-2016. Both production to be expedited the transport system on the reservoir sands, Kosmos said. SNE-2 and SNE-3 appraisal from an estimated 1.5 Tcf of

UK side (SAGE). wells will be logged, cored gas resources and 31 MMbbl

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Green light for and ? ow tested. The BEL-1 of condensates in the Atoll

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Edvard Greig Greater Stella well will appraise the ? eld, with production antici- remains on track

Norway’s Norwegian northern portion of the SNE pated to begin in 2018.

Atoll, in the North Damietta oil ? eld and evaluate the Petroleum Directorate (NPD) Ithaca Energy’s delayed

Offshore Concession in the East untested Buried Hills play. has given Lundin the green Greater Stella Area develop-

Nile Delta, will consist of two

The aim of the appraisal light to start production from ment remains on track for phases. The ? rst phase consists program is to progress the Edvard Grieg ? eld. ? rst production in Q2 2016. of two development wells tied towards proving a minimum The ? eld is in production Ithaca says sailaway of the back to existing infrastructure, economic ? eld size for the license 338 in the Norwegian FPF-1 ? oating production oedigital.com December 2015 | OE 15 014_OE1215_GlobalBriefs.indd 15 11/20/15 6:46 PM