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Contents May June 2013
regional updates
4 Briefs
Asia-Pacific oil and gas news and views.
shipyards
10 Jackups Evergreen
Newbuilding for offshore drilling rigs has
taken a marked turn toward jackups.
Early-May CPC/IRI
Geology & Geophysics
13 Seismic roundup
4 Probabilistic ENSO
Offshore seismic activity is concentrated
in Oceania and Southeast Asia, while 100
some companies experience difficulty.
CLIM
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Weather 14 EN
14 Mild West Pacific typhoon season predicted 80
Meteorologists examined sea surface temperatures and atmospheric
patterns across the Pacific Ocean to develop the 2013 West Pacific 70
tropical forecast, suggesting activity will be below normal during the
upcoming typhoon season.
60
Probability (%)
contracts
50
19 Petrofac Abu Dhabi double
Petrofac-Emirates won two contracts in Abu Dhabi for the Upper
Zakrum, UZ750 oilfield development. Other features include 40
contracts of interest and recent rig moves.
30
Company news
22 Activity 20
A roundup of the latest news from companies
in the region. 10
People
25 On the Move
The latest news of people and business
leadership changes.
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Audrey Leon
aleon@atcomedia.com Fletcher Finucane startup Statoil stakes
Statoil has concluded a farmin with
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Australia & Singapore 39, and 40 are located in the frontier
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Malaysia and cover more than 24,000sq km.
Koh Earn Soo
Tel: (+603) 6280 4136
Once processing and evaluation of
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kes.marketintelligence@gmail.com Santos, as operator, commenced oil completed. BP, operator, anticipates
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production from its US$490 million drilling up to four exploration wells.
Tel: (+39) 10 570 4948 Fletcher Finucane project in the Car-
info@mediapointsrl.it
narvon Basin off Western Australia.
Netherlands/Belgium/Germany
Arthur Schavemaker
The development consists of a three-
Tel: (+31) 547 275005 well subsea tieback to the existing
arthur@kenter.nl
Santos-operated, Mutineer Exeter
Scandinavia
Brenda Homewood
FPSO vessel MODEC Venture 11.
Tel: +44 (0) 1732 459683 Gross and probable reserves are
Brenda@aladltd.co.uk estimated at about 14MMbo with the
Uk/France
Mike Cramp
field expected to produce 15,000bo/d
Tel: +44 (0) 1732 459683 for the first year of production.
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North America
Bill Krull
Elfin-1 makes 21 Browse LNG on hold
Tel: (+1) 713 535 1521 Chevron has made a discovery with Woodside Petroleum has decided
bkrull@atcomedia.com Elfin-1 in the Exmouth Plateau area to not proceed with the proposed
John Lauletta of the Carnarvon Basin, their 21st onshore development of the Browse
Tel: (+1) 713 874 2220 discovery offshore Western Australia LNG project at James Price Point near
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since mid-2009. Drilled to a depth of Broome, Western Australia (WA).
Rhonda Warren 11,909ft in 3570ft water depth, the Woodside, as operator and 31.3%
Tel: (+1) 713 285 5072
rwarren@atcomedia.com well encountered 132ft of net gas pay interest holder in the joint venture
Publisher in a sandstone within permit WA- with Shell, BP, BHP Billiton and Japan
Brion Palmer 268-P. It is about 106 miles northwest Australia LNG, stated that the de-
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bpalmer@atcomedia.com of Barrow Island. velopment concept did not meet the
Associate Publisher WA-268-P participants include commercial requirements for a final
Neil Levett Chevron Australia, operator, 50%, with investment decision. In addition to
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neil@aladltd.co.uk Shell and Mobil each holding 25%. rising infrastructure costs, influenc-
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Province, which may use gas from Agency of Japan began a three-month
New Zealand PRL 15 and other discoveries (such test drilling program for oil in the
Canterbury leads as Triceratops), or to pursue further Sea of Japan about 30km southwest of
development with ExxonMobil PNG. Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture. The
drilliship Chikyu (Earth) will drill a
Osaka Gas eyes PNG well up to 2700m below seabed.
Osaka Gas reached agreement with This is the first time in nearly nine
Horizon Oil for Osaka to acquire years that Japan has conducted test
interests in three onshore petroleum drilling for oil and gas at the govern-
retention licenses (PRL) in Papua ments initiative. It is hoped that
New Guinea (PNG), currently held by deposits could hold as much as a
Horizon Oil and partners, to develop medium-size, Middle Eastern oil field.
condensate and natural gas resources. The project has been contracted to
The transaction reportedly involves JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration and
Osaka Gas paying US$74 million for Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National
40% of Horizons PNG assets, result- Corp.
ing in stakes in adjacent PRLs 4,
New Zealand Oil & Gas has acquired 21, and 259 of 20%, 18%, and 10%, Malaysia
50% interest and operatorship in PEP respectively. Osaka Gas plans to par- Sarawak
52717 from Beach Petroleum (NZ) , ticipate in exploration and intends to breakthrough
a subsidiary of Beach Energy. The examine opportunities for developing Newfield
permit is off the east coast of South an LNG project in PNG with Horizon Exploration has
Island, New Zealand in the Canter- and partners. made a signifi-
bury Basin, and contains the Clipper cant natural gas discovery in PSC SK
prospect. Timor Sea 310, which covers around 1.1 mil-
Beach was recently granted an New Inpex PSC in JPDA lion acres 50 miles offshore Sarawak,
extension to PEP 52717 that largely East Malaysia in an about 250ft water
incorporates the Barque structure and depth. This is their second pinnacle
a related lead. An area of low prospec- reef natural gas discovery in the
tivity in the northwest of the original region.
PEP 52717 was surrendered and the The B-14 well encountered 1585ft
southern boundary of the permit was of net natural gas pay in the main
extended to approximate the area of carbonate objective. A drill stem test
the former permit. The partners have confirmed the reservoirs commercial-
committed to acquiring at least 600sq ity, estimated to have gas initially in
km of 3D seismic by the 4Q of 2014. place (GIIP) from 1.5-3Tcf.
B-14 is less than three miles from
PNG the first pinnacle reef gas discovery,
Antelope and Elk discussions B-15, also in SK 310 with estimated
InterOil and joint venture partner recoverable gas reserves of 265bcf. The
Pacific LNG Group have entered into Inpex Offshore Timor-Leste signed two fields will be jointly developed.
negotiations with ExxonMobil Papua a new production sharing contract Block SK 310 interests include New-
New Guinea for the development of (PSC) with Eni and Timor Gap EP, the field, operator (30%), Diamond Energy
onshore Petroleum Retention License Timor-Leste national oil company, Sarawak, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi
15 (PRL 15), comprising the Elk and for JPDA 11-106. This block is a joint Corp. (30%), and Petronas Carigali
Antelope fields in the Gulf Province of petroleum development area admin- (40%).
Papua New Guinea. istered by Timor-Leste and Australia Lee Boothby, Newfield chairman,
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confirmed by log data, and oil shows The Philippines. Energy and
in a thinned sandstone interval that The Galoc JV has approved Galoc PVEP have
was well developed at South Kecapi. Phase II development, due to com- first oil from
Although increasing formation pres- mence drilling mid-year with first oil the Hai Su
sure and limited equipment led to expected in 4Q 2013. Trang and Hai Su Den (HST/HSD)
early suspension, there is potential Principal Galoc JV partners are development, 75km offshore southeast
for commercial oil and later investiga- Galoc Production Co., (Otto Energy Vietnam. Gross output is expected to
tion of the up-dip extent of the South subsidiary and operator), 33%; Galoc reach 15,000bo/d.
Kecapi oil discovery. Production Company No. 2 (KUFPEC HST and HSD are oil fields discovered
James Menzies, Salamander CEO, subsidiary), 26.84473%; and Nido within block 15-2/01 on the western
commented, Finding over 10m of gas Production (Galoc), 22.87952%. edge of the Cuu Long Basin.
Malaysia
Cendor surges Cendor was developed using a leased mobile offshore produc-
Petronas has achieved success with the Cendor Graben-2 tion unit (MOPU), the first use of an MOPU in the country. Oil
appraisal well within permit PM304. The permit is located about output began in 4Q 2006 and, as the Cendor field performed
100km offshore Terengganu, above expectation, further explo-
Malaysia.Undertaken by Petrofac ration resulted in Cendor Phase
(Malaysia PM304), operator, the 2 and other new developments in
well was drilled to a depth of over PM304. Estimated reserves conse-
1000m, confirming oil- and gas- quently received a 16-fold boost.
bearing reservoirs. These and other fast-tracked
The Cendor field was discov- developments in PM304 are ex-
ered by Amerada Hess in 2001and pected to start producing in stages
initially was considered a marginal throughout 2013, rising to around
find, with only 12MMbbl of recov- 30,000bo/d by year end.
erable oil. It has subsequently Cendor field joint venture partic-
been determined to have around ipants include Petronas, KUFPEC,
200MMbo, making it one of the and PetroVietnam Exploration
largest discoveries in Malaysia. Cendor field MOPU. Production. n
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The development, located in a 45m Block 9, located about 50km east of
water depth, consists of two wellhead Dhaka. It operated the block on behalf
platforms tied back to the existing Te of partners Niko Resources, holding
Giac Trang oil field FPSO. Four wells 60%, and Bangladesh Exploration and
for HST and two at HSD were com- Production Company (BAPEX), 10%.
pleted by Thang Long Joint Operat- Block 9 includes the Bangora gas-
ing Co. (TLJOC), using the Vietnam producing facility and the Lalmai
contractor PV Drilling. Both platforms discovery.
were constructed in Vietnam by PTSC Tullow carried out a three-well
Mechanical and Construction, a sub- drilling program in 2003 and 2004
sidiary of PetroVietnam. that resulted in the Bangora and Lal- jan Republic (SOCAR) and Statoil
Block 15-2/01, operated by TLJOC, mai gas discoveries. have agreed to a memo for joint
is held by Talisman (Vietnam 15-2/01) During 2012, gross production from exploration and development of the
with 60% interest and PVEP with the Bangora field averaged around Zafar and Mashal fields in the
40%. 100MMcf/d of gas and 300b/d of con- Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea.
densate. The memo was signed by SOCAR
Bangladesh Aidan Heavey, Tullow CEO, com- President Rovnag Abdullayev and
Tullow departs Bangladesh mented, This sale is part of a process Statoil CEO Helge Lund. Negotiations
Tullow Oil of portfolio management and asset are to be conducted within a year to
sold its monetization, which forms a key part define basic commercial principles for
Bangladesh of our exploration-led strategy....a the permit area, located about 40km
subsidiary, process that is continuing...with the south of the huge Shah Deniz gas field
Tullow Oil proposed sale of gas assets in Pakistan in water depths of about 550 to 900m.
International, and the UK and Dutch North Sea. Meanwhile, also in the Azerbaijan
to KrisEnergy sector of the Caspian Sea, Hess com-
Asia Holdings Central Asia pleted the sale of its 2.72% interest in
for US$42.4 million. Tullow had a Caspian prospects revisited the Azeri, Chirag and Guneshli (ACG)
30% stake in 1770sq km onshore The State Oil Company of Azerbai oil fields and its 2.36% stake in the
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Noble Corp. has placed an order for Singapore-listed Falcon Energy Group,
an ultra-high specification jackup drill- has ordered a KFELS Super B Class
ing rig from Jurong Shipyard in Singa- jackup drilling rig, able to drill to
pore for an unprecedented US$596 mil- 35,000ft in water depths up 425ft, to
lion with an option for a second unit. be constructed in Singapore at a cost
Semi work barge Explorer Lifter.
The Gusto MSC CJ70-based design, of US$226 million.
scheduled for completion in 1Q 2016, CIMC Raffles Offshore com-
will have a 69m air gap and be capable Grupo R, a Mexican drilling compa- pleted sea trials in China for their
of drilling to 10,000m in water depths ny, has secured contracts to have four newbuild semisubmersible Explorer
up to 150m. KFELS Class B jackup drilling rigs Lifter, a 618-personnel accommoda-
constructed in Singapore by KFELS tion and crane barge. The vessel will
BOT Lease Co., an affiliate of The for a total of US$820 million, to be work in the Gulf of Mexico.
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, has delivered between 2Q and 4Q 2015.
contracted PPL Shipyard, a subsidiary COSCO (Guangdong) Shipyard
of Sembcorp Marine, to construct Rig Masters was contracted by in China has been contracted by an
a Pacific Class 400 design jackup Coastal Energy to provide project undisclosed customer in Singapore to
drilling rig in Singapore with the management services in the conver- construct a 102m long semisubmers-
collaboration of Japan Drilling Co. sion of jackups Energy Producer 5 (ex- ible tender capable of accommodating
Costing US$220 million, the rig is to Hercules 259) and Energy Producer 6 169 crew.
be delivered in 1Q 2015. (ex-Hercules 257) into mobile offshore
production units (MOPU). Drillships
Ensco has contracted Keppel FELS, The work will be accomplished by Pacific Drilling expects to take
a subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & MMHE (Malaysia Marine and Heavy delivery of the Pacific Khamsin drill-
Marine (Keppel O&M), to construct a Engineering) at their yard in Pasir ship from Samsung Heavy Industries
KFELS B Class jackup drilling rig, Gudang, Johor, Malaysia. (SHI) in Korea in 2Q 2013 for deploy-
Ensco 110. The US$225 million rig will ment to the Gulf of Guinea under a
be capable of drilling to 30,000ft in Semisubmersibles two-year contract with Chevron.
400ft water depths. The jackup, the Diamond Offshore Drilling The Samsung 12000 design includes
fourth Bigfoot design with enlarged has contracted Hyundai Heavy Indus- a dual derrick and can drill to 35,000ft
spud can, will be completed in 1Q 2015. tries (HHI) to construct a Moss CS60E in up to 12,000ft water depths.
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Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS)
Rosebank FPSO.
has placed an order with Mitsubi-
Chevron North Sea has con- shi Heavy Industries (MHI) for two
tracted HHI to build an FPSO vessel at Ramform Titan-class vessels. The
a cost of US$1.9 billion, with delivery 104m-long by 70m-wide ships permit
in 4Q 2016. The 292m-long unit will deployment of up to 24 lines. These
be able to produce 100,000bo/d and two units, to be delivered in 1H and
190MMcf/d of gas, and have storage 2H 2015, bring the total of MHI-built Samsung carrier design.
capacity for 1.05MMbo. Deployment seismic vessels for PGS to four.
will be in the Rosebank field, north- The SK Marubeni Joint Venture
west of the Shetland Islands. China Oilfield Services has ordered two 180,000cu m LNG carri-
commissioned Shanghai Shipyard ers from SHI for a combined total of
SHI at their Geoje shipyard in South Co. to construct the 3D seismic ac- US$410 million, to be delivered in 2H
Korea laid the keel for Shells Prelude quisition vessel HYSY721. It will be of 2016 and 2H 2017, respectively, for
FLNG facility, to be completed in 2017. capable of towing 12 streamers, each operations with Total. One vessel
The 488m long by 74m wide, 8000m long, and be equipped with will transport Ichthys Project LNG to
600,000t vessel will be moored and dual-source, eight-gun arrays, and Korea. These bring the SHI-construct-
hooked up to subsea infrastructure a diesel-electric propulsion system; ed total for such vessels to 108 out of
about 475km northeast of Broome, delivery is in 2H 2014. 374 ordered since 1996, a 29% share.
Western Australia. It will receive pro-
duction from Prelude and Concerto gas Hanjin Heavy Industries and Evergas has placed an order with
fields, located in permit WA-44-L in Construction (HHIC) of Korea Wrtsil to provide a comprehen-
the Browse Basin. signed a letter of intent (LoI) to build sive solutions package for a series of
The US$12 billion project is expect- an OSV valued at US$300 million at environmentally sustainable Dragon
ed to produce 3.6MMt/y of LNG. their Yeongdo Shipyard for an undis- 27,500cu m LNG carriers being built
closed European client. at Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering
Construction (SOE) shipyard in Shanghai, China, to
Nam Cheong, a Malaysian support Vroon Offshore Services, a be delivered from 2015 onward.
vessel builder, has been commissioned Netherlands global shipping company,
to build two accommodation work took delivery of VOS Prudence, the Hanjin Heavy Industries and
barges worth US$59 million for a sub- first of two 75m-long PSV from Fujian Construction (HHIC) of Korea is
sidiary of Perdana Petroleum Berhad, a Southeast Shipyard in China. preparing to enter the gas-carrier
Malaysian marine services provider. market having signed an agreement
The two 100m long, ABS classed LNG carriers with Exmar, an independent Belgian
barges are to be fabricated in China. The Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has con- LNG and LPG carrier owner and
vessels are equipped with 300t crane tracted MHI to build a Sayaendo se- operator, to build a 38,000cu m LPG
and can accommodate 300 personnel. ries, new generation, 75,000dwt LNG carrier at their Subic shipyard in
Delivery is scheduled for 1H 2014. carrier. The 228m-long vessel will The Philippines.AOG
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lines of credit. In Indonesia, MCG (MultiClient Geo- has tendered for a 2D infill seismic
On a positive note, Singapore-based physical) has completed a multi-client survey in Block 52 over a shallow near-
Nordic Maritime Pte. Ltd. acquired a 3D 2D survey off northeast Sumatra, using shore area of Sawqirah Bay. Farm-out ef-
seismic vessel from Norfield, based in the DMNG (Dalmorneftegeophysica) forts are underway for the block, which
Austevoll, Norway. The vessel is being vessel Akademik Fersman. About covers 90,760sq km off the southeast
upgraded at Jurong SML shipyard 4500km of long-offset, regional data coast in water 200-3500m deep. AOG
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Deeper Insight into the Subsurface
tropical season,
Aaron Studwell is
a senior meteorolo-
gist with Wilkens
Weather Technolo-
gies. He earned a
BS degree in
aerospace engineer-
ing from University of Michigan and
a MS degree in meteorology from
Texas A&M University. With over
10 years of experience in energy
weather forecasting and natural gas
analysis, Studwell focuses daily on
worldwide tropical forecasting,
conducting research to improve
Operational Data tropical forecasts, and coordinating
500mb geopotential heights (dom) 90-day anomaly for: business development. Prior to
Wed., Jan. 02, 2013 Mon., Apr. 01, 2013 joining Wilkens Weather, Studwell
was senior manager, Research and
Operational climatology data: 1985-1996, smoothed with a 5-day running mean) Development at Weather Insight.
Figure 4. The subtropical ridge over the equatorial Pacific region was slightly weaker He has also worked in senior
than normal for the first three months of 2013 (upper left quadrant), seen in this 90- research and forecasting roles at
day departure from normal for the 500 mb geopotential height. Reliant Resources, CMS Energy, and
Source: NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory. Avant Capital Management.
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Petrofac Abu Dhabi double The Sarb Project is a new field development involving drilling
Petrofac has won two contracts in the Persian Gulf, offshore conducted from the two artificial islands Sarb 1 and Sarb 2, with
Abu Dhabi, worth about US$3.4 billion. production sent by subsea pipeline to a facility on Zirku Island for
Petrofac-Emirates, a joint venture with Mubadala Petro- processing, storage and export. Work includes delivery of 80km
leum, in consortium with DSME (Daewoo Shipbuilding & of subsea pipelines for well fluid, water injection, gas injection,
Marine Engineering) has garnered a $3.7 billion ($2.9 billion to and subsea power and communication cables. Offshore, two riser
the company) supply contract for the Upper Zakrum, UZ750 platforms and four flare platforms with four interconnecting bridges
oil field development. and a single point mooring (SPM) buoy north of Zirku Island will be
The Upper Zakum project comprises engineering, procure- provided.
ment, construction transportation and commissioning of Onshore, work includes utilities and accommodation modules.
surface facilities on four artificial islands
Drilling on the Sarb Project will be from an artificial island.
inclusive of wellhead control, manifolds,
crude oil process facilities, water injection,
gas lift and utilities, facilities to commence
operations in 2016.
The Satah Al Razboot (SARB) package
3 oil field project granted Petrofac by Abu
Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA-
OPCO) entails an engineering, procure-
ment, installation, and commissioning
(EPIC) contract valued at $500 million.
Completion is scheduled for 2Q 2016.
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Rig Moves
In Australia, the Transocean ultra Mubadala has a 25% stake in block southeast coast of Vietnam. Premier
deepwater (UDW) drillship Deepwater 07/03 where appraisal drilling has Oil is operator.
Millennium received a two-year contract begun in Ca Rong Do (CRD) field off the
through February 2016 by an unnamed Mubadala is also engaged in
Songa Venus to drill two more wells has entered into a two-year contract
at a cost of around $19 million in for the just completed newbuild
Vietnam, where it now has six firm and Atwood Oceanics jackup drilling rig
two optional wells that will see the semi Atwood Orca for operations in block
occupied through 2013. Atwood Orca. B5/27 in the Gulf of Thailand.
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Smooth BOP control SeaONYX is designed for obsolescence interface software, based on the GE
GE Oil & Gas released SeaONYX, its management, for a product expected WorkstationST and Intelligent
next-generation blowout preventer to operate at least 20 years. SeaONYX Platforms Proficy Cimplicity tools,
(BOP) surface control system and uses a standard footprint for the major integrates touchscreen displays that
operator interface for rapid and reli- components that will be used in future enable management of all system func-
able operation in deepwater drilling. Mark Vle releases. tions, alarms and events.
SeaONYX incorporates GE Mark Vle Mark Vle architecture also has the www.ge-energy.com
hardware, an industry configuration ability to hot swap certain compo-
installed in more than 2000 thermal, nents while the system is running,
wind, hydro, and nuclear facilities, the new replacement booting up and
with more than 400 additional deploy- configuring itself in typically a matter
ments every year. of minutes. The SeaONYX BOP
surface control system.
The Mark Vle control platform of The SeaONYX human machine
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went into production See Contracts page 19.
30km Test drilling began 30km southwest of Sado Island in the Sea of Japan.
See Regional Briefs page 5.
2021 First oil expected from the Dolginskoye field in the Pechora Sea. (Source: Gazprom)
4,500,000
Hours dedicated to developing Shells
Prelude FLNG vessel. (Source: Shell)
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