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A Mexico signs
C Repsol requests
remaining PSCs Guyana extension
Pan American Energy and Repsol representatives met
Fieldwood Energy have each with Guyana’s president
signed production sharing
David Granger to seek an ex-
contracts with Mexican tension to continue explorato-
officials for offshore areas ry work in the Kanuku Block
awarded in the phase two bid offshore the South American
round on 30 September. The country. The company faced
round produced three winning
several setbacks, the governfered
bids for the five blocks ofment
noted, including a legal
in the shallow waters of dispute with CGX Energy
the southeast basin. The third that arose in 2012 over
winner, Italy’s Eni, signed exploration activities in the
their PSC back in November. Georgetown block. This dispute
Mexico’s secretary of energy
was resolved in 2014.
D
(SENER) estimates production “We want a short extension
could be begin by 2018 and in order to continue working
B A
in the block and eventu-
reach a peak of 55,000 b/d.
Planned investment is estimated
ally drill a well,” said Mikel
C
at US$2 billion for the Erquiaga, Repsol’s Latin
duration of the projects.
D Anadarko brings Heidelberg online
B Surveys ramp
Anadarko Petroleum has achieved first oil at the Heidelberg
up off Campeche
spar development in Green Canyon 859 in the US Gulf of
Mexico’s Pemex extended Mexico. Originally expected in April 2016, the milestone
F
Fugro’s contract to support was achieved about three months ahead of schedule in
its exploration drilling activities
mid-January.
in the Bay of Campeche, The Heidelberg development consists of six produc-
which includes geophysical
and geotechnical field oil and gas export lines, and a standalone spar, a 80,000
tion wells, two drill centers, dual looped 8in flowlines, 16in
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operations, laboratory testing b/d floating production facility. It was developed as part
and geoconsulting activities. of a “design one, build two” strategy, being 87% identical
Fugro Synergy, an ultra-deepwater
to Anadarko’s Lucius truss spar. Read more about the oil discovery and additional
geotechnical and well Heidelberg and Lucius projects on page 25.
oil bearing F3 reservoirs.
services vessel, will be used
According to Falkland Oil
for the field program, while
and Gas, the well, drilled using
the geoconsulting program
the Eirik Raude semisub-
will continue through 2016.
mersible drilling rig, successfully
Additionally, Schlumberger
penetrated five separate
and Statoil signed an agreement
fans within the complex and
to license a large part of
discovered oil in the Isobel
the WesternGeco Campeche
Deep, Isobel, and Emily fan
wide-azimuth deepwater
systems.
multiclient seismic survey in
Operations have now been
the southern Gulf of Mexico.
suspended and the well will
The license also includes collaboration
be plugged and abandoned as
with WesternGeco America exploration director. E Premier hits
planned.
in the seismic processing The Kanuku block is 50mi in Isobel Deep
phase.
off Guyana, and covers an Premier Oil confirmed its F Petrobras confirms
A fleet of eight vessels is area of 6525sq km. Kanuku Isobel Deep oil discovery offshore
Carcará Norte
conducting the survey in represents a high potential
the Falklands, as well Petrobras concluded two for-
the Bay of Campeche for the exploration opportunity with as an additional discovery in mation tests in the 3-SPS-105
three-year project. The project
significant prospectivity the same well.
(Carcará Norte) well, conernment
follows the Mexican gov-
mainly in Cretaceous strata The well reached 3014m firming the high productiv-
opening licensing in water depths ranging from total depth, hitting 27m of net ity of the pre-salt carbonate
rounds to non-government shallow shelf to 200m, according
pay, with no oil water contact reservoirs.
to partner RWE DEA. or gas, confirming the main The results from the fluid
companies for the first time.
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