Field/project development
Plans call for license partner Aker BP to serve as operator during the development phase, with operatorship reverting to DNO after first oil in 2028.
In lifting force majeure, TotalEnergies says it will restart construction on its Mozambique LNG project as soon as the government agrees to a revised budget and schedule that targets shipping first product in 2029.
The supermajor says it aims to start appraisal activities in 2027 and is evaluating development possibilities for the deepwater find offshore Brazil, which is the company’s largest discovery in 25 years.
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ExxonMobil is evaluating additional development opportunities in the Stabroek Block with plans for five drillships operating offshore Guyana by the end of 2020. -
CNOOC Limited’s Nanbao 35-2 oil field S1 area offshore China in the central Bohai bay began production. The oil field, fully owned by CNOOC Limited, has an average water depth of 17 m.
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Pharos Energy, an independent E&P company, received approval from the Prime Minister of Vietnam for its Te Giac Trang (TGT) full-field development plan (FFDP), enabling the company to begin drilling six new producer wells in Q4 2021.
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Petrobras completed a drillstem test (DST) in the Júpiter Discovery Assessment Plan, located in the Santos Basin pre-salt carbonate reservoir.
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Equinor will drill three new wells at a cost of $219.3 million at the Martin Linge field in the Norwegian North Sea to ensure safe production after an analysis found four previous wells drilled there did not have necessary barriers.
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Santos is a step closer to the go-ahead for its Narrabri coal-seam gas project after gaining approval from a government planning commission. It is planning workover activities on existing wells and an appraisal drilling program.
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Equinor awarded multimillion-dollar contracts to Aker Solutions and Wood for work on the oil field in the Norwegian Continental Shelf. It said about 70% of the contracts for the development phase is expected to go to Norwegian companies.
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The contract is for Equinor’s unmanned process platform at the Krafla field in the North Sea, with plans for tie-in to an Aker BP host platform in the North of Alvheim area.
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Facing a minimum 1-year delay to startup, Husky Energy discussed the West White Rose extension project’s challenges and risks with Canadian local and federal governments. Cancellation is a possibility, according to a Husky executive.
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Field developers have shifted the usual approach to planning and operations to a “dare to try” approach, experimenting, piloting, and directly implementing from the start a digital transformation of their activities.
