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Shell hits and a ? eld support vessel.

NEWS

Fort Sumter pay Elsewhere, Tullow and

Shell discovered hydro- partners agreed on a one-year carbons at the Fort Sumter extension with the govern- deepwater well in the US ment on Block 15 to acquire

Gulf of Mexico. Estimated 2500sq km of new 3D seismic recoverable resources are that will start in late 2016. more than 125 MMboe, the Tullow also said in their Q2 supermajor says. The Noble report that it will plan a 3D

Globetrotter I drillship seismic survey on the Kanuku drilled the Fort Sumter well and Orinduik licenses in 2017, in 7062ft (2152m) water depth nearby offshore Guyana.

to 28,016ft (8539m) total

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Statoil adds vertical depth. Fort Sumter

Carcará stake is in Mississippi Canyon

Block 566, approximately Statoil will acquire 66% op-

A 73mi (117km) offshore New erating interest in the BM-S-8

Orleans. An appraisal side- offshore license in the Santos

J track well was later drilled to Basin from Brazilian national

B a depth of 29,200ft (8900m)

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COSL completes Arctic survey measured depth.

China Oil? eld Services (COSL) completed a 3D seismic survey of two blocks in the north Barents Sea.

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BHP in LeClerc ? nd

The ? rm recorded 1820.58sq km (703sq mi) of seismic data

BHP Billiton discovered gas

HYSY 720 using the 12-streamers vessel for the 100-day opera- at the deepwater LeClerc well

D tion, 900km (559mi) above the Arctic Circle. This was the ? rst offshore Trinidad. attempt by China to perform 3D seismic data collection in ultra-

The LeClerc 1 ST01 well

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was drilled in Block 5, in “We have no precedence to follow for this operation in 2500-8500ft water depth,

North Pole,” says Chen Zhiwei, operation team manager, 135mi off the east coast of

COSL. “The low-temperature operation, the persistent

Trinidad using Transocean’s daylight and the

Deepwater Invictus drill- narrow window that ship. It reached 22,876ft total allowed opera- in the Lower Jurassic Åre depth, with gas encountered tion to take place

Formation.

in multiple zones. presented unprec-

The LeClerc well, spudded “If successful this will add edented challenges 21 May, is the ? rst of three another tie-in opportunity to to team members deepwater wells, and is part the Greater Njord Area and and the exploration of the BHP’s eight-well, deep- the Njord Future Project,” equipment.”

Image from China Oil? eld Services Ltd.

water program in the area. says Graham Stewart, chief

BHP Billiton holds 65% in- Petrobras. The US$2.5 billion executive of Faroe Petroleum.

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NF-2 drilling begins terest in the block. Its partner acquisition includes a part of

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Statoil has started drilling on Premier makes

Shell holds 35%. the Carcará oil discovery.

Bagpuss discovery the Njord North Flank-2 (NF-

Carcará was discovered in

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Uruguay ramps up 2) exploration well 6407/7-9 2012, on the geological trend Premier Oil has made a dis-

Total’s Uruguay-subsidiary

S in production license of the nearby Lula and Libra covery on its Bagpuss heavy awarded Fugro a contract to 107C, in the Norwegian Sea, area. It contains high-quality oil exploration well on the support the French oil major’s says license partner Faroe oil of around 30° API and Halibut Horst in the Outer drilling campaign offshore

Petroleum. with associated gas in a thick Moray Firth, off Scotland,

Uruguay at the Raya-1 well, The well is being drilled reservoir. in the North Sea. Wood which is to be the deepest by the Songa Delta semisub-

Statoil expects to achieve a Mackenzie says a discovery well, by water depth, ever mersible drilling rig, in about declaration of commerciality here could open a new play. drilled. Fugro is supplying 323m water depth, target- in 2018 and a ? nal invest- The 13/25-1 well, drill- two state-of-the-art 200hp ing the Middle and Lower ment decision in 2020+. ing using the Ocean Valiant

Carcará straddles both BM- Jurassic sandstone reservoirs

FCV 4000D work-class ROV semisubmersible drilling

S-8 and open acreage to the of the Ile and Tilje formations systems and subsea tooling, rig, reached 1532ft to- north, which is expected to be in a fault-bounded structural which are installed on board tal vertical depth subsea part of a license round in 2017. closure, with a total depth the Maersk Venturer drillship, and encountered 41ft of

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