Spectrum commences seismic survey in eastern Gulf of Mexico
2009.07.25 -
Projects
On 22nd July, the GGS-Atlantic commenced the acquisition of Spectrum's Big Wave Phase 2 multi client seismic survey in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Phase 2 of Spectrum's Big Wave multi client programme is a total of 14,000km long offset, high quality seismic data and includes a 2,000km well tie survey to the east of the main study area. This new survey compliments the previously acquired data sets and will expand Spectrum's coverage in the eastern Gulf of Mexico to over 52,000km.
Spectrum's seismic vessel, GGS-Atlantic, will be fully utilised acquiring Phase 2 until December 2009. Seismic data processing will be undertaken by Spectrum's data processing and imaging facility in Houston, where a sequence including both pre-stack time and pre-stack depth migration will be applied.
The survey in the Gulf of Mexico has already attracted significant interest. To date 5 major oil companies have signed up to Phase 2 ensuring it is close to being fully prefunded.
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.
