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Cossack back on the job



By Upstream staff 

Woodside Petroleum has resumed production from its Wanaea-Cossack Lambert-Hermes oilfields complex off Western Australia earlier than it had originally expected.

Reuters quoted a company spokeswoman as saying: “Cossack was successfully re-connected midweek after repairs, and production began on Thursday.”

The company had said previously that the complex would only resume production in the middle of this month.

The Cossack Pioneer floating production, storage and offloading vessel disconnected from its riser turret mooring on 8 January to avoid tropical cyclone Clare.

On 11 January, when the floater was reconnecting, the hydraulic winch jammed and subsequently the lifting wire broke, said Woodside.

The four-field complex is the North West Shelf Venture’s only dedicated oil resource.

The six equal-sharing partners in the Venture are operator Woodside, Shell, BHP Billiton, BP, Chevron and Japan Australia LNG (MiMi).


Friday, 10 February, 2006, 03:38 GMT  | last updated: Friday, 10 February, 2006, 03:43 GMT

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