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BP to Start Production of Oman Tight Gas in August [May 28]
” BP PLC will begin production from two tight gas fields in Oman later this year, according to a senior Omani energy official. “BP will start producing gas from Khazzan and Makarem fields in August,” said Nasser al-Jashmi, the undersecretary of Oman’s oil and gas ministry. BP signed a production-sharing agreement with Oman in 2007 for the two gas fields, which lie on Block 61. Jashmi said he expected production to reach less than 1 million cu m from the early production this year, but he said that the volume is expected to increase in 2011. In November 2009, BP completed drilling five of eight appraisal wells as part of its development program for the reserves on Block 61.
“BP will drill eight appraisal wells in total by 2011,” according to BP Oman general manager Jonathan Evans, who added, “So far we’ve done five wells, which have provided a lot of useful information on the nature and the scale of the reservoirs.” In a company report, Evans said, “Our latest test site, Khazzan 5, initially produced about 40 MMcfd of gas and has the highest flow rate of any well we’ve drilled so far.”..” [Complete Report]
