Styborrow Project Starts First Oil Production
2007.11.19 -
Projects
Production has begun from the Stybarrow Oil Project, in which Woodside has a 50% non-operator interest. Production has started from the Eskdale field and subsequent production will be from the Stybarrow field in the coming weeks. Initial production is expected to be minor, with a ramp-up period of several months to expected plateau production rates of around 50,000 to 60,000 barrels of oil a day. Oil will be produced by a floating production storage and offloading facility, Stybarrow Venture, which is located about 65 kilometres north-west of Exmouth, Western Australia. The FPSO has a maximum production rate of about 80,000 barrels per day and a storage capacity of about 900,000 barrels of oil. Water depth at the FPSO location is 825 metres. The Stybarrow development is in production licence WA-32-L. Joint venture participants are Woodside Energy Ltd. (50%) and BHP Billiton (50% and operator).
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.
