Statoil
will restart drilling in Venezuela's deltana platform in mid 2006
Petroleumworld
CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 01 31 06
Statoil
said on Monday that it will resume its drilling in Venezuela's
offshore Deltana platform in mid-2006.
Statoil
suspended operations last year because of safety concerns with
the Transocean s Sovereign Explorer drilling rig failed to meet
Statoil's safety requirements for work on high-pressure reservoirs,
a company spokeswoman said Monday, Dow Jones reported..
"We're
looking at the end of the second quarter or the start of the third,"
she said, Dow Jones quoted.
Statoil won
a license in 2003 to operate block four in the Deltana platform.
Statoil hopes
to finish drilling three exploratory wells By February 2007, Statoil
hopes to finish its preplanned drilling program that includes
drilling three exploratory wells.
To finish
on time, Statoil will probably engage a second rig to accelerate
the drilling program.
The Deltana
contains an estimated 40 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves.
Petroleumworld
01/30/06
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