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more clues that eni will drill heron in the following upstreamonline.com article. See below ENI has taken the Far Sky and Far Grip for five months each to assist Ensco 104 PLUS A FIVE MONTH OPTION. This takes the ENI contract for ENSCO 104 through to mid-May.............

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Chevron, Eni in Farstad vessel deals Done deals: Woodside is getting the Far Scimitar off Australia

Eoin O'Cinneide, 05 August 2013 14:46 GMT

Norwegian offshore vessel owner Farstad Shipping has inked a plethora of deals with oil industries stalwarts, mostly for contracts off Australia.

Chevron, Eni and Woodside Energy are among a sextet of players to have signed up anchor-handling tug supply (AHTS) units from the Oslo-listed company.

US supermajor Chevron has signed up for an unidentified UT712L-design unit to support the Ocean America off Western Australia. The contract will start in the final quarter and has a firm duration of 18 months with further unspecified options.

Italy’s Eni has taken the Far Sky and Far Grip for five months each to assist Ensco 104 on the Evans Shoal gas field off northern Australia. There is also a five-month option on the unit.

Mining giant BHP Billiton will have the Far Sword and Far Sound off north-west Australia for three firm wells plus one optional well. The firm contract, assisting the semi-submersible rig Jack Bates, will last around five months.

Also off north-west Australia, compatriot Woodside is taking the Far Sabre and Far Scimitar to assist the Atwood Eagle semisub for around 100 days.

Elsewhere, Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell has chartered the Lady Caroline for five months off Brunei while Oil Search will have the Far Fosna and Lady Sandra off Papua New Guinea for around a month after it exercised a one-well option with the Stena Clyde semisub.

Upstream reported recently that Oil Search had, as a result of the encouraging results with the recent Flinders-1 and Hagana-1 wells, decided to take up an option to drill a third well — Kidukidu — in Block PPL 385, which it wholly owns.

The well will spud following completion of Hagana-1.

At Flinders-1, a five-metre to 10- metre gas column was found within a 54-metre thick sand package with good reservoir properties at the main Pliocene target level.

Hagana-1 hit a 35-metre thick section in the main Pleistocene target, but was water-bearing. However, drilling into a deeper secondary Pliocene objective hit a nine-metre gas column.

Farstad did not give any contract breakdown but said the total value of the firm period was around Nkr 350 million ($58.84 million).