First oil from Woodside Vincent oil project
2008.08.28 -
Projects
Production has begun from the Woodside-operated Vincent oil project off North West Cape, Western Australia.
Vincent is in production licence WA-28-L and has estimated recoverable reserves of about 73 million barrels of oil. It was discovered by Woodside in 1998 and is being developed in phases.
The hook-up, testing and commissioning of Maersk Ngujima-Yin floating production storage and offloading facility has been completed and over the coming weeks production is expected to increase steadily. Field production rates are expected to ramp up to 50,000 barrels of oil a day and naturally decline to about 40,000 barrels of oil a day by year end, after which production from additional wells is expected to supplement the decline in production.
Maersk Ngujima-Yin is about 50 kilometres north of Exmouth. Water depth at the location is about 350 metres. Joint venture participants are Woodside Energy Ltd. (60% and operator) and Mitsui E&P Australia Pty Ltd
(40%).
The FPSO Sevan Piranema has today commenced oil production on the Piranema field, off the coast of Aracaju, in the state of Sergipe, Brasil.
Q is located in Mississippi Canyon block 961. The natural gas field is developed as a subsea tieback to the Anadarko-operated Independence Hub facility in the eastern US Gulf of Mexico. StatoilHydro has a 50% working interest in the Q field.
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.
