Anzon Australia, the project operator, said that production started as planned on 8 September and has stabilised at more than 5000 barrels of oil per day, with a favourable gas oil ratio and zero water.
Overall production rate from the Crystal Ocean floating production, storage and offloading vessel has now increased from 9500 bopd to about 12,500 bopd.
Flow from the Basker-6 sidetrack is primarily from the new shallower oil pool discovery, which is demonstrating favourable fluid characteristics and reservoir deliverability.
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