CNOOC starts oil production from Enping 23-1 fields

CNOOC Ltd. reported that oil production has started from the Enping 23-1 group of oil fields, which lie in about 90 m of water in the South China Sea’s Pearl River Mouth basin. Source: News


Inpex lets subsea contract for Ichthys gas, LNG project

Inpex Australia has let a 5-year, subsea and geoscience services contract to Dutch multinational services firm Fugro NV for operations on Inpex’s Ichthys natural gas-LNG project in the Browse basin, 220 km offshore Western Australia. Source: News


Statoil’s Cape Vulture well finds oil, gas near Norne field

A year after Norway’s Awards in Predefined Areas (APA) 2015 round, Statoil ASA has discovered 20-80 million bbl of recoverable oil with its Cape Vulture well in PL128 offshore Bronnoysund, Norway, in the Norwegian Sea. Source: News


US judge denies preliminary injunction in BLM venting, flaring suit

A federal district court judge in Wyoming denied a preliminary injunction against the US Bureau of Land Management’s venting and flaring rule. Petitioners—which included the Independent Petroleum Association of America, the Western Petroleum Association, and the states of Wyoming, North Dakota, and Montana—did not demonstrate that a preliminary injunction is warranted, US District Judge Scott […]