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Statoil, Petoro and Exxon to tie-back Svalin to Grane Svalin is made of two fields, Svalin M which was discovered in 2008 and Svalin C which was discovered in 1992. Svalin is located in Block 25/11 in the North Sea, between the Grane and Balder fields, about six kilometers south-west of the Grane platform at […]
Definition Depletion refers to the decline of production of an oil or gas field. Depletion may also be used for accounting in a similar way as depreciation to allow an owner or operator to account for the reduction of a product’s reserves. For tax purposes, there are two types of depletion; cost depletion and percentage depletion. Comments […]
Petrofac-Schlumberger won 30 years Pemex contract The Pánuco Area in Mexico contains four mature onshore fields operated by the Mexico’s state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX). Discovered in the early 1900s with original oil in place of approximately 6.8 billion barrels, the Panuco oil fields have about 1,600 wells of which around 200 are currently producing a total of […]
Definition Drilling charter refers to the decision of an operator to lease or hire the drilling rigs instead of using its own ones. The service company renting its drilling rig to an operator is called the charterer. Comments In the past each operating company used to have their own drilling rig for oil and gas […]
Chevron to award FEED for Rosebank FPSO The Rosebank oil and gas field discovery is located on Blocks 213/26 and 213/27, in the Faroe-Shetland Channel, 130 km northwest of the Shetland Islands in 1,115 m of water depth on the Corona Ridge near the UK border. Rosebank is considered to be one of the biggest discoveries […]
Doris to work on Maersk Chissonga FEED Maersk Oil (Maersk) , a fully owned subsidiary of A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S operates the Block 16, which includes the Chissonga discovery. Chissonga is located in the Lower Congo Basin some 138 kilometres offshore Angola in water depths 1,500 meters. In 2011, Maersk Oil acquired the 15% interest […]
Mad Dog: BP’s second giant field in Gulf of Mexico In September 2011, BP announced the drilling of a successful appraisal well in a previously untested northern segment of the Mad Dog field in the US Gulf of Mexico. The well results confirm a significant resource extension for the Mad Dog Field complex, which includes […]