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Global E&P Briefs

O country’s ? rst offshore Son Basin, offshore Vietnam. areas as part of its 2016

Production uptick

NEWS in Gulf of Thailand energy licensing round to The Hakuryu-5 semisub- Offshore Petroleum be held in November. The mersible drilled the well Production from the Exploration Acreage

The areas span ? ve blocks, some of which are during Q2, operated by RN- Chevron-operated B8/32 and Release. basins – Bonparte, Browse, close to major gas discover- Vietnam, in Block 06.1. B9A complex in the Gulf of

Offshore Canning, Roebuck, ies, are in water depths rang- Later this year, the opera- Thailand has increased to and Northern Carnarvon – ing between 1500-1800m. tor plans to shoot broadband an average gross production in Commonwealth waters

A recent, third-party basin 3D seismic on the block to of 52,289 boe/d following offshore Ashmore, Cartier modeling study concluded boost production and explo- wireline zonal recompletions

Islands and Western Australia. that as much as an estimated ration potential. and seven in? ll wells drilled 6.6 billion bo and 75 Tcf of in Q2 2016. Twenty-? ve areas are

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Gazprom Neft adds gas are yet to be found in the KrisEnergy, who part- available for work program production wells offshore part of the basin. nered in the aforementioned bidding and three areas for

MIEWR has made a data Russia’s Gazprom Neft Chevron complex, plan to cash bidding. Areas in the package available, which increased production at the boost production at its G11/48 Round One work program in- includes speculative seismic Prirazlomnoye ? eld by adding contract area, also in the clude AC16-1, AC16-2, W16-1, data and historical well data. two production and two injec- Gulf of Thailand. The ? rm W16-3, W16-8, W16-10, W16-

The closing date for bids will tion wells, now reaching 6000 is drilling four in? ll wells, 11, W16-13, W16-15, W16-16, be March 2017. tonne/d. The ? rm says ? eld which are expected to add W16-19, W16-20, W16-21, with development is set to total 32 4000 bo/d gross to the cur- a closing date of 8 December.

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Rosneft in Wild wells. rent 9722 bo/d average gross The cash bid prequali? ca-

Orchid discovery

The Prirazlomnoye oil? eld production. tion round, which closes on

Russia’s Rosneft has made is in the Pechora Sea, 60km 20 October, includes areas

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Australia offers a gas condensate discovery from shore, northwest of W16-17, W16-22, W16-25. The 2016 offshore acreage at the PLDD-1X exploration Russia. The operator says re- cash bid auction closes on 2 well in the Wild Orchid gas coverable reserves are about The Australian government February 2017. Round Two condensate ? eld, Nam Con 70 million tonne. will offer 28 exploration closes on 23 March.

Jascon 34 using the , Sea Truck’s

Because of the success of the front-end scope, PJV has DP3 pipelay construction and

ContractsContracts also been awarded contracts accommodation vessel.

SapuraKencana wins covers provision of inspec- for the compressor, metering

Pemex pipeline work GE wins Anoa tion management services and water treatment packages. on Nexen’s North Sea assets,

Pemex selected SapuraKencana decommissioning for work on the Ku-Maloob- Sea Trucks bags including delivering integrity GE Oil & Gas subsidiary PT

PIAM pipelay gig

Zaap (KMZ) project o