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Global E&P Briefs

N Q of Okhotsk, in the west- offshore Indonesia, in late Sri Lanka 2017 Scarborough

NEWS ern Paci? c Ocean, in late January.

opens Block M2 FEED possible

Sri Lanka’s government is January. Australia’s Woodside says

The well, drilled to a depth of 2732m in 1269m of water, hit offering a tender for Block The Ayashsky block, the Scarborough project 17m of clean sands with very

M2 later this year. Block M2 next to the Sakhalin-1 and could move into front-end good petrophysical character- covers 2924sq km, offshore Sakhalin-2 projects, forms engineering and design in istics of Pliocene age con- in the Mannar Basin, and part of the Sakhalin-3 project. 2017, with a ? nal investment ? rming the extension of the includes the Barracuda Recoverable reserves are decision by 2020.

Woodside acquired a

Merakes 1 discovery, Eni said.

and Dorado gas-condensate estimated at more than 100 stake in the ExxonMobil- discoveries. million tonne of oil equiva- The Merakes discovery is operated license, contain-

The remainder of Sri lent. Gazpom Neft has ac- estimated to have 2 Tcf of ing the Scarborough ? eld,

Lankan acreage will be quired 2150sq m of 3D seismic gas in place with additional in the Carnarvon Basin, released in a bid round in Q4 data over the block and is potential to be evaluated.

offshore western Australia, 2017. WesternGeco is plan- preparing to drill an explo- The block is in the proli? c late 2016, from BHP ning 2D and 3D seismic ahead ration well at the Ayashsky offshore Kutei Basin and

Billiton.

of this off the east coast and formation this summer. the Merakes discovery is in the Mannar Basin. Some 35km from the Eni-operated Scarborough, Thebe and

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Eni ? nds gas airborne FTG/mag surveying Jangkrik ? eld, which is Jupiter are estimated to at Merakes 2 is also planned. expected to start producing contain gross 8.7 Tcf of gas

Eni drilled and tested through a ? oating production resources. The blocks are

O Gazprom Neft picks

Merakes 2, the ? rst appraisal unit in Q2 this year. close to existing infrastruc- up Ayashsky license well of the Merakes Eni operates the East ture, but the project had

Gazprom Neft has picked discovery under the Sepinggan PSC with 85% in- also been seen as a potential up a 22-year license for the production sharing contract terest. It’s partner Pertamina standalone ? oating lique? ed

Ayashsky block, in the Sea (PSC) in East Sepinggan, Hulu Energi has 15%. natural gas development.

in the Bay of Bengal. services to TechnipFMC in

The project will consider Australia for the Prelude FLNG

Contracts a seven-well gas condensate water intake riser installation.

HSM inks platform is due to handed over development via two subsea Technip’s previously platform contract during summer 2019. drill centers, tied back to a awarded contract covers multi-

Dutch fabricator HSM O