ExxonMobil logs Turbot as fifth discovery off Guyana

With an additional well already planned for 2018, ExxonMobil Corp. has completed its Turbot-1 well in the southeastern portion of the Stabroek block, about 30 miles southeast of the Liza Phase 1 project. The Stena Carron, which spudded Turbot-1 on Aug. 14, is moving to the Ranger prospect. Source: News

Saudi-Russia warming yields collaboration

JSC Gazprom Neft and Saudi Aramco signed a memorandum of cooperation on oil and gas as Saudi King Salman met with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a 3-day visit signaling a warming of relations between the world’s two top producers of crude oil. Source: News

German, Egyptian companies to partner with Pemex

Deutsche Erdoel AG (DEA) of Germany has acquired a 50% license share and operatorship of onshore Ogarrio oil field in southern Mexico’s Tabasco state 197 km west of Villahermosa. Source: News

Veresen starts up second Montney gas plant

Veresen Midstream LP, a 50-50 venture of Veresen Inc., Calgary, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP, New York, started up the 400-MMcfd Sunrise processing plant on Sept. 27 in the Montney area of northeastern British Columbia’s Dawson region. Source: News

Shell, Kufpec cancel Thailand deal

Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co. (Kufpec) have canceled their deal in which a Kufpec unit was to buy stakes in two Shell subsidiaries that hold interest in Bongkot field offshore Thailand. Source: News