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Amerisur lands drilling contract for
Colombia campaign
Amerisur Resources Plc has signed a contract for a drilling
rig to perform its Platanillo drilling campaign.
The Serinco D10 1200HP drilling unit has been contracted
for two firm wells with a continuing option to extend for
further wells.
The D10 drilling unit recently drilled a 3,353 metre well
under contract to the Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos
(ANH), and is currently located in Bogota and Tumaco.
Following agreement of preventative maintenance and load
out procedures, Serinco expects to begin mobilisation of the
unit and its associated camp to the drilling location “Platform
9” in the southern part of the Platanillo field in April 2012.
Results from the first well are expected to be announced in
May 2012.
The recently worked over Platanillo-2 well is now being
tested with an Electrical Submersible Pump at higher rates
than previously reported in natural flow. The company is
configuring the surface reception and treatment systems in
order to efficiently handle and condition the flow for a Long
Term Test of the N sand.
The Platanillo block is located near the Fenix block in
Colombia. Amerisur Resources owns and operates with
100% interest in both blocks.
Marubeni invest in a FPSO deal for
vessel in Brazil’s pre-salt
Marubeni, Mitsui and Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) will invest
in a long-term charter business operated by Mitsui Ocean
Development & Engineering (Modec) to provide an FPSO
(floating production storage offloading) vessel for use in
the Cernambi Sul area of a pre-salt oil field off the coast of
Brazil.
Marubeni, Mitsui and MOL will invest in Cernambi Sul
MV24, a Dutch company established by Modec. MV24 has
signed a long-term chartering agreement with Tupi, a Dutch
firm owned by Petrobras Netherlands (65%), BG Overseas
Holding (25%) and Galp Energia E&P Brasil (10%). The FPSO
will be chartered to Tupi for 20 years.
Construction of the FPSO will involve conversion of a VLCC
that will be renamed FPSO Cidade de Mangaratiba MV24.
The vessel will be deployed to the Cernambi Sul area of
offshore block BM-S-11 in the third quarter of 2014. The
oil is in the pre-salt layer some 5,000 metres beneath the
seabed.
Foster Wheeler awarded contract
for an LNG receiving terminal in
Dominican Republic
Foster Wheeler AG has been awarded the basic design and
FEED (front-end engineering design) contract by Complejo
GNL del Este, for a new LNG (liquefied natural gas) receiving
terminal and jetty to be built in San Pedro de Marcorís, in the
Dominican Republic.
Foster Wheeler has previously completed a feasibility study
for the selection of the most suitable technology for the new
terminal, which will be designed for a send-out capacity of
240 MMscf/d (million standard cubic feet per day), with an
LNG storage tank of 160,000 cubic metres. The design will
also consider future expansion up to 700 MMscf/d. Foster
Wheeler will work with a local partner in executing this work,
which is expected to be completed in September 2012.
The LNG receiving terminal site is located in San Pedro
de Marcoris, in Dominica. Complejo GNL del Este is a
consortium formed by Dominican and Colombian companies
that participate in the energy sector of these countries,
owning and operating with 100% interest in the terminal.
Petrobras confirms crude oil at
Nordeste de Tupi
Petrobras’ second well, drilled in areas acquired from the
government in 2010, confirms the discovery of high-quality
crude oil.
Petrobras drilled the well in an area known as Nordeste de
Tupi, northeast of the first Santos Basin pre-salt discovery to
enter production, the Lula field. The well was drilled in 2,131
metres of water, approximately 255 kilometres offshore Rio
de Janeiro.
The company is accelerating development of the pre-salt
fields, with plans to invest US$225 billion through 2014 and
increase crude oil output. A cluster of oil deposits was found
in the Santos Basin off the coasts of Rio de Janeiro and
Sao Paulo states, potentially holding as much as 100 billion
barrels of oil equivalent.
Petrobras plans a well-formation test to evaluate the well’s
productivity after drilling is completed.
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