Drilling & Production
Drilling and Production News
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Laricina: Carbonate SAGD test 'encouraging'
Laricina Energy Ltd., Calgary, reported “encouraging” production test results at its Saleski pilot in the Athabasca region of Alberta, the first steam-assisted gravity drainage project in the Upper Devonian Grosmont carbonate.
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Total believes kill operation has stopped Elgin gas leak
Total UK Ltd. reported a well intervention operation stopped the G4 well natural gas leak on the Elgin complex in the UK North Sea within 12 hr of when workers started pumping heavy mud into the well.
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Petrobank to boost cold heavy oil output
Petrobank Energy & Resources Ltd., Calgary, has adjusted its 2012 development plans for heavy oil projects in Canada toward cold production, in one case to prepare the reservoir for its proprietary toe-to-heal air injection (THAI) process.
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Total starts well intervention on Elgin gas leak in North Sea
Total UK Ltd. said it started the planned well intervention operation to stop the natural gas leak from the G4 well on the Elgin complex in the North Sea on May 15.
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Diamond Offshore orders drillship, sells jack ups
Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. ordered a $655 million ultradeepwater drillship from Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. with delivery scheduled for fourth-quarter 2014.
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Statoil hires rig for Flemish Pass, Jeanne d'Arc drilling
Statoil ASA has reached an agreement to use Seadrill’s West Aquarius harsh environment semisubmersible on its 2012-2013 exploratory drilling offshore Newfoundland.
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First-phase STP-McKay expansion planned
Southern Pacific Resource Corp., Calgary, plans to expand its STP-McKay thermal oil sands project west of Fort McMurray, Alta., to boost first-phase development to a design capacity of 18,000 b/d of bitumen.
