Diamond finish up the Basker Manta work and head for Santos
2008.03.05 -
Projects
Anzon Australia Limited, advises that the Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. semi-submersible drilling rig Ocean Patriot arrived at the Basker well location. The rig expect to spud Basker-6 well tomorrow and take approximately 40 days to drill and complete the well.
Basker field and has both development and appraisal objectives. The well will be drilled and evaluated prior to being completed for future oil production. After the drilling rig departs the Operator expects to mobilize an installation vessel to tie-in the Basker-6 well to the existing facilities and begin producing through the Crystal Ocean FPSO in July 2008. The Basker-Manta-Gummy Joint Venture are:
Anzon Australia Limited, Beach Petroleum Limited and CIECO Exploration and Production (Australia) Pty Ltd.
After drilling and completing Basker-6 the Ocean Patriot rig will have fulfilled its commitment to the BMG Joint Venture having drilled six wells in the Basker-Mandevelopment over the past two and a half years. The rig will be released to Santos ltd.
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The Piranema field, 25 km off the coast of Sergipe, started producing oil this Wednesday (10/10), in deep Northeastern Brazil waters. With operations going online in this field, Petrobras is taking another step towards maintaining Brazil’s oil self-sufficiency. The Piranema oil, of excellent quality, at 44º API, is the lightest oil produced in deep waters in Brazil.
The first tanker with a cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Snøhvit field left port at Melkøya near Hammerfest, northern Norway
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announced today that its subsidiary, Esso Exploration Angola (Block 15) Limited, has started production from the Marimba North project, designed to develop 80 million barrels of oil in approximately 3,900 feet (1,300 meters) of water more than 90 miles (145 kilometers) off the coast of Angola.