CNOOC's Rochelle gas field starts operations
Updated: 2013-10-26 13:44
|
 |
|
A CNOOC oil exploration platform in the Bohai Sea off the east coast of China. The company will gain a working interest in six deepwater exploration wells in the Gulf of Mexico via a joint venture with Nexen Inc. [Ding Jianzhou / Bloomberg News] |
The Rochelle field consists of two wells, namely the East and West Rochelle, and a pipeline to the Scott platform for processing.
The CNOOC said that operations began at West Rochelle. East Rochelle is expected to come into operation in the fourth quarter this year.
Nexen Petroleum UK, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CNOOC, is the field operator and holds 41 percent of the field's interest. Endeavor International Corporation and Premier Oil takes 44 percent and 15 percent, respectively.
Nexen Petroleum also operates the Scott platform, owning 41.9 percent of the platform's working interest.
- BYD exports three electric cars to Thailand
- Grid gets first jolt of residential solar power
- US now largest buyer of China's exports
- China's outbound M&As on the rise
- Tobacco control may entail price, tax rises
- Quanzhou becomes pilot financial reform zone
- New automobiles shine at Geneva Motor Show
- World's longest high-speed rail 'on track'
- Jiugui Liquor involved in plasticizer scandal again
- Accident reignites school bus safety concerns
- China to revise labor law
- Trademark registration under scrutiny
- Dinner ban takes toll on liquor firms
- CIC tables bid for London's Chiswick Park
- Property buyers eye overseas market
- Call for law to protect personal information
- China to cut train ticket prices
- Christmas business
- Solar industry to get jolt from new policies
- KFC chicken under spotlight
Survey & Comments
