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Galoc wraps up G-4 well



By Upstream staff 

Galoc Production Company, the operator of the Galoc field off the Philippines, said it had completed the Galoc-4 well, the second development well on the field, with first oil expected in late April.

The company said tests had been run on the Galoc-4 well to confirmed both the well's integrity and its ability to flow to the field's floating production, storage and offloading vessel prior to departure of the drillship Energy Searcher.

Flow from the well was restricted to a stabilised rate of 6150 barrels of oil per day with a choke setting of 52/64” and a flowing tubing head pressure of 1062 psi.

Similar tests were run on Galoc-3, the field's other production well.

The Energy Searcher is scheduled to leave the field in the next few days, with subsea installation work by the offshore construction vessel Lewel Champion due to take place after that.

Subsea installation is set to take about three weeks, after which the FPSO will hook up to the subsea wells for final commissioning.

The Galoc field lies in 290 metres of water about 65 kilometres north-west of Palawan and, in 2006, held an estimated 10 million barrels of oil, said the company.

The development involves the building of two subsea horizontal production wells with extended reservoir contacts tied back to an FPSO via a short seabed pipeline and mid-water riser system.

The shareholders in the Galoc field are Galoc Production Company (58.29%) as operator, Nido Petroleum (22.28%), Philodrill (7.02%), Oriental Petroleum & Minerals (7.58%), Forum Energy (2.27%), Alcorn Gold Resources (1.53%) and PetroEnergy Resources (1.03%).


Tuesday, 26 February, 2008, 06:18 GMT  | last updated: Tuesday, 26 February, 2008, 07:59 GMT

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