Maersk’s global exploration costs in the first half of this year reached US $303 m but all that drilling totalling 12 wells brought finds in Angola, Denmark, and the UK and the US.
Oil and gas discoveries were made in deepwater offshore Angola with the Chissonga prospect, in the UK North Sea with the Hobby and Pink wells, and in the US with the Buckskin discovery. Other wells were also drilled in Kazakhstan, Oman.
More drilling is underway too: “At the end of the first half year of 2009, exploratory drilling[s] were underway in Angola, the USA and Great Britain,” the Danish-based group said.
Total exploration costs for the first half of 2009 were US $303 m, compared with $302 m in the first half last year.
In Denmark Maersk has said development work on the Halfdan field is 50% complete with the installation of a new process platform. Production from Denmark in the first half this year was 17 m bbl, 4% down on the same period last year. “Gas production was approximately 30% lower than in the same period of 2008, mainly due to lower customer take,” the group said in its half-year income statement.
Group oil and gas production in the first half was 81 m bbl, down 8% from 2008 (source: www.offshore.247.com)
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