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Origin sheaths Kupe bit



By Upstream staff 

New Zealand Oil & Gas (NZOG), the operator of the Kupe project on the offshore Taranaki basin in New Zealand, said it run production lining on the Kupe South-7 sidetrack, wrapping up the batch drilling of the project’s three initial development wells.

The company said it was now kicking off the installation of completion tubing and down-hole monitoring equipment, starting with the KS-7 sidetrack and proceeding to KS-8.

The wells are being drilled on the PML38146 permit off New Zealand’s North Island. The wells will be tied in to an unmanned platform, which will feed an onshore facility via a 30-kilometre pipeline.

First gas is expected by mid-2009.

Drilling and completion work is being carried out by the jack-up rig Ensco 107.

Origin operates the project with a 50% stake, with the remaining stakes being held by subsidiaries of local players Genesis Energy (31%) and New Zealand Oil & Gas (NZOG) (15%), and by Japan’s Mitsui E&P (5%).


Thursday, 24 April, 2008, 00:45 GMT  | last updated: Thursday, 01 May, 2008, 00:17 GMT

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