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NEWS appraisal of the SNE discov- ery, as well as for further exploration drilling in the acreage. It will also help ? rm up ongoing conceptual devel- opment planning, in which

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Cairn says that it will look at

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So far, appraisal of SNE

G has increased Cairn’s 2C oil resources to 473 MMbbl with associated 2C oil in place in excess of 2.7 billion bbl.

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TEN ? rst oil

Tullow Oil achieved ? rst oil from the Tweneboa, Enyenra,

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Ntomme (TEN) ? elds offshore

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Ghana with MODEC’s Prof.

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John Evans Atta Mills ? oat- ing production and storage of? oading (FPSO) vessel.

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Production will gradually increase throughout the year

D towards the FPSO’s capacity of 80,000 b/d. The average in 2016 is anticipated to be 23,000 b/d gross. The Prof.

John Evans Atta Mills is moored some 60km offshore western Ghana at about 1500m water depth. hydrocarbon-bearing sands well back online by using will be tied into existing

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Israel to hold within a 68ft hydrocarbon nitrogen from the production production facilities.

licensing round column. facilities.

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Cairn eyes more

The sands had 25-33% po- Operator Erin Energy is Israel’s Ministry of

SNE resources rosity and indications were also preparing for the next Infrastructures, Energy and that the oil was heavy. The drilling campaign, planned Cairn Energy plans to drill Water Resources (MIEWR) well is now being plugged to begin in Q4. The Oyo-9 for an additional 500 MMbbl will offer 24 blocks in the and abandoned. well, in the central area of offshore Senegal. The latest Levant Basin in the Eastern

Bagpuss and the nearby the Oyo ? eld in OML 120, program will include an Mediterranean Sea, in the

Blofeld heavy oil prospects

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Hydrates discovered systems in the Krishna-Godavari Basin and is together could contain up to offshore India made up of a sand-rich, gas-hydrate-bearing fan 2 billion bbl in place.

Large, highly enriched accumulations of natural and channel-levee gas hydrate prospects. The

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Oyo-8 back online gas hydrates have been discovered in the Bay next steps for research will involve production

The Erin Energy-operated of Bengal, India, according to the US Geological testing in these sand reservoirs to determine

Oyo-8 well has returned to

Survey (USGS), which assisted whether natural gas production production offshore Nigeria. in the exploration program. is practical and economic.

The discovery is part of the

Oyo-8 is producing more

It is the ? rst discovery of its

Indian National Gas Hydrate than 7000 b/d following kind in the Indian Ocean that

Program Expedition 02, involv- intervention work. has the potential to be produc- ing scientists from India, Japan,

An emergency shut down ible, the USGS says. of the Oyo-7 well in July has and the US, and led by the Oil

Using the Japanese research

Chikyu (pictured) resulted in the temporary and Natural Gas Corp. on behalf vessel , gas hydrates were found in coarse- loss of 1400 b/d, but plans of the Ministry of Petroleum and grained sand-rich depositional are being made to bring the

Natural Gas India.

Photo from JAMSTEC.

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