Message-ID: <12041649.1075855176904.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:49:45 -0800 (PST) From: newsletter@rigzone.com To: jtholt@enron.com Subject: RIGZONE Industry News Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: "newsletter@rigzone.com" @ENRON X-To: jtholt@enron.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Jane_Tholt_Jan2002_1\Tholt, Jane M.\Inbox X-Origin: Tholt-J X-FileName: jtholt (Non-Privileged).pst =09=09=09[IMAGE]=09=09 =09Wednesday December 19, 2001=09Schlumberger =09=09=09 =09=09=09[IMAGE]=09=09 =09=09=09[IMAGE]=09=09 [IMAGE]=09=09 RIGZONE [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] =09[IMAGE]=09=09 [IMAGE]=09=09home | news | search | maps | data | jobs | = market | store =09[IMAGE]=09=09 =09=09=09[IMAGE]=09=09 [IMAGE]=09=09 [IMAGE] [IMAGE] In This Issue [IMAGE] [IMAGE] = [IMAGE] Current Oil and Gas Industry News T! op Stories for the Past= 7 Days Featured Events and Conferences What's in Store - Books & More = Featured Employment Opportunities Surplus Oilfield Equipment For Sale World= wide Offshore Rig Utilization Oil & Gas Prices [IMAGE] [IMAGE] I= ndustry Headlines [IMAGE] [IMAGE] PDVSA to Spend $375 Million Of= fshore Trinidad PDVSA plans to spend $375 million over the next three year= s on a natural gas exploration project offshore Trinidad. OPEC To Meet in = Cairo on December 28th OPEC confirmed that it would meet in Cairo on Decem= ber 28th to discuss output cuts scheduled for January 1st. [IMAGE] [IM= AGE] advertisement Feature your surplus oilfield equipment or new product= s with a photo and banner ad on the Rigzone.com market place home page and = receive a free advertisement here in the Rigzone daily newsletter with up t= o 4 sentences of text. Exploration [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAG= E] Shell Hits in Santos Basin Shell has made a discovery offshore Brazil = in block BS-4 located in the Santos Basin. The estimated reserves are betw= een 300 - 500 million barrels of oil. Santos and Esenjay Make Major Gas Di= scovery in Texas The Runnells #7 well tested at 22 million cubic feet of n= atural gas and over 500 barrels of condensate per day. Landmark Awarded Br= azilian E?Data Management Contract Landmark has been awarded a four-year E= ?data management contract by the Brazilian Geological Service to organize a= nd manage all Brazilian seismic and well E?data on behalf of ANP. [IMAGE= ] [IMAGE] Production [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] CNOOC Plans = To Develop Xihu! Trough in 2002 CNOOC is looking for foreign investors to = jointly develop natural gas from the Xihu Trough located in the East China = Sea. Saipem and Odebrecht form Joint Venture Saipem and Odebrecht have f= ormed a 50-50 joint venture to provide turn-key floating production service= s offshore Brazil and Angola. [IMAGE] [IMAGE] Company & Financia= l News [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] Burlington to Spend $1.3 Billion i= n 2002 Burlington Resources plans to spend $1.3 billion in 2002. Most of = the E?budget will be spent on development programs in Canada, Algeria, the = East Irish Sea and the United States. Atlantic Petroleum Plans Capital Exp= ansion Atlantic Petroleum, a Faroes! e independent oil company, is plannin= g a capital expansion of DKr100 million in 2002. Magnum Hunter and Prize E= nergy Announce Merger Magnum Hunter and Prize Energy announce plans to mer= ge in a deal valued at $1.2 Billion. Sakhalin-2 Reports 22 Percent Rise in= Production A consortium led by Shell reports that production offshore Rus= sia's Sakhalin Island has increased by 22 percent this year from 1.67 milli= on tons to 2.0 million. [IMAGE] [IMAGE] advertisement A National-Oil= well designed, 1992 built modular offshore drilling rig is available for sa= le direct from the manufacturer. This rig drilled only 5 wells from the Dr= augen platform in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Click on the link= below for full details, photos and seller contact information: http://ww= w.rigzone.com/market/surplus_listing.asp?eq_id=3D397 Last 7 Days= Top Stories [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] Bouygues Signs AIOC Contract= Following an interim accord with the AIOC consortium on July 11, Bouygues= Offshore has signed a contract worth US $163 million to supply offshore st= ructures for the Azeri field. Devon Energy to Sell Latin American Assets = Devon Energy is planning to sell several of its Latin American assets, loca= ted in Argentina and Brazil. Indonesia Will Tender 17 Blocks for Explorati= on Indonesia will tender 17 areas for oil exploration. Tender documents w= ill be available January/February 2002. Halliburton Expands Relationship w= ith Vanco Energy Halliburton continues to build upon its relationship with= Vanco Energy by signing an agreement for engineering and consulting servic= es in several deepwater reg! ions offshore West Africa. Murphy Plans to Sp= end $866 Million in 2002 Murphy Oil Corporation announces a capital progra= m of $866 million for 2002, essentially level with spending during 2001. E= nergy Partners to Acquire Hall-Houston Energy Partners has entered into an= agreement to acquire Hall-Houston Oil Company in a deal valued at approxim= ately $88.3 million. Conoco To Develop Deepwater Magnolia Field Conoco an= d Ocean Energy to develop the Magnolia Field in the deepwater Gulf of Mexic= o at a cost of $600 million. Phillips Announces 2002 Budget The board of = directors of Phillips Petroleum Company has approved $3.5 billion for capit= al projects in 2002. ChevronTexaco Interested in Joining Baku-Ceyhan Pipel= ine ChevronTexaco confirmed its plans to join the projected Baku-Ceyhan pi= peline, to run from Azerbaijan to Turkey. Pioneer Sets Budget for 2002 Pi= oneer Natural Resources Company announced that its Board of Directors has a= pproved a 2002 development and exploration capital budget of $425 million. = Denbury Revises 2002 Budget Denbury Resources Inc. has reduced its projec= ted 2002 development and exploration budget by approximately 20%. Statoil = Orders New LNG Carrier Statoil has placed an order with Leif Hoegh & Co an= d Mitsui OSK Lines for an LNG tanker to ship LNG from the Snohvit field to = Melkoya. [IMAGE] [IMAGE] advertisement American Material Resources, = Inc. offers McMaster-Carr Supply Company Catalog items at a discount price.= ..E-Mail (amrsales@ocinet.net ) or fax your inquries to us at 970-325-0505,= attention Donna Morss, Sales. 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