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Kupe well primed for production



By Upstream staff 

Australia’s Origin Energy said it had completed the Kupe South-7 sidetrack well for production on the Taranaki basin off New Zealand’s North Island and was moving its rig to the Kupe South-6 well

Origin said it had run production tubing and down-hole monitoring equipment into the well and installed a production tree on the KS-7 well following batch drilling of the Kupe project’s three development wells.

The wells are being drilled on the PML38146 permit and 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, 01 May, 2008, 00:20 GMT  | last updated: Thursday, 01 May, 2008, 00:20 GMT

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