StatoilHydro intends significant exploration activities worldwide
2008.01.09 -
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StatoilHydro intends to achieve long term growth from a strong resource base with significant exploration activities worldwide. This year’s exploration programme represents an all time high for the new company, amounting to around NOK 18 billion, based on around 70 wells, split approximately 50/50 between NCS and internationally.
On the NCS most of the drilling activity will take place in mature areas, but there will also be frontier exploration in the Barents and Norwegian seas. Internationally, the most important wells will be in the US Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria and Azerbaijan.
Drilling rigs have been secured for the entire 2008 drilling programme.
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.
