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The restart of production at Hibernia oil field offshore Newfoundland and Labrador was halted Aug. 17 by a release of oil and water from the platform’s drain system (OGJ Online, Aug. 15, 2019).
According to the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board, total oil production at the Hibernia field for 2017-18 was 51.14 million barrels, with a daily average of 140,165 barrels.
CALGARY, Alberta, June 16 (Reuters) - The government of Newfoundland and Labrador has signed a memorandum of understanding with a consortium that includes Exxon Mobil Corp to develop the 220 ...
Production at the Hibernia oil field off Canada's East Coast has been reduced by an undisclosed amount following a mechanical problem last week, a spokeswoman for the owner consortium said on Monday.
Hibernia Management & Development Co. Ltd. (HMDC) began restarting oil production from the Hibernia platform offshore Newfoundland and Labrador on Aug. 15, nearly a month after ...
More than 200 nautical miles off the coast of Newfoundland — a two-hour helicopter flight — Hibernia could have been a model of isolation. Communication by cellular phones is not an option.
The C-NOPB announced last week its conditional decision to increase the annual oil production rate for the Hibernia field from 180,000 barrels per day (65.6 million barrels/year) to 220,000 ...
But Crosbie, the colourful senior minister from Newfoundland, found a new partner, Murphy Oil Corp., to step in for 6.5%; got Chevron Corp. and Exxon Mobil Corp. to increase their shares by 5%; and ...
Petro-Canada believes there are about 1.2 billion barrels of oil in the field, and expects Hibernia will be worked for another quarter century.
Mechanical problems on the 180,000 barrel-a-day Hibernia oil platform, off Canada's east coast, have lowered output for an unspecified period, according to the consortium that operates the platform.
The Hibernia offshore platform will get $38 million from the oil and gas industry recovery fund in order to restart work on the rig, create more jobs after a year of layoffs and downturn, and extend ...
Premier Dwight Ball says the province has come a long way since Hibernia began producing oil in November of 1997 ST. JOHN’S, N.L.—Newfoundland and Labrador is celebrating its one-billionth ...