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March 30, 1999
(Mines and Energy)


The following is being distributed at the request of the Canada-Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board:

Weekly Public Status Report
Oil and Gas Activities Offshore Newfoundland and Labrador
Issued: March 30, 1999
(Also available at: //www.cnopb.nfnet.com)

Geophysical  
Program No. Operator/Survey
(Location)
Vessel Start Date kms completed Comments
8926-H006-005E
Husky Oil/Wellsite Survey
(Grand Banks)
M.V. Cabot Sea
March 18, 1999

958 km
(958 km)

519 km acquired last week.
Survey suspended March 25, 1999
8926-C004-003E Chevron/Wellsite Survey
(Grand Banks)
M.V. Cabot Sea March 25, 1999 152 km
(152 km)
152 km acquired last week.
Survey completed March 29, 1999
Drilling
Well / Location Installation Spud
Date
Current
Depth (Projected Total Depth)
Current
Operation
HMDC Hibernia B-16 14
46 45'01.3"N; Lat.
48 46'53.4"W: Long.
Licence: PL 1001
Hibernia Platform
M71 (East Rig)

February 15, 1999 3,056 M
(8,025 M)

Suspended
HMDC Hibernia B-16 15
46 45'02.0"N; Lat.
48 46'54.4"W: Long.
Licence: PL 1001
Hibernia Platform
M72 (West Rig)
March 5,
1999
850 M
(6,687 M)
Suspended
PanCanadian et al Shoal Point K-39
48 38'25.3" N;Lat.
58 50'33.5" W;Long.
Licence:  EL 1021
Nabors 375ETD February 8, 1999 2,175 M
(3,200 M)
Drilling 311 mm hole
HMDC South Nautilus H-09
46 48'24.8" N;Lat.
48 45'04.3 W;Long.
Glomar Grand Banks February 27, 1999 3,858 M
(3,913 M)
Drilling 216 mm hole
Production
Well Well Type Completion Date Status
HMDC- Hibernia B-16 1 Oil Producer December 2, 1997 Shut-in
HMDC- Hibernia B-16 2 Oil Producer December 19, 1997 Shut-in
HMDC - Hibernia B-16 3 Oil Producer February 24, 1998 Shut-in
HMDC -Hibernia  B-16 4Z Oil Producer June 3, 1998 Shut-in
HMDC - Hibernia B-16 5 Gas Injector August 5, 1998 Shut-in
HMDC - Hibernia B-16 6 Water Injector

June 29, 1998

Shut-in
HMDC - Hibernia B-16 7 Water Injector May 22, 1998 Shut-in
HMDC - Hibernia B-16 9 Water Injector October 10, 1998 Shut-in
HMDC - Hibernia B-16 10Z Gas Injector January 26, 1999 Shut-in
HMDC - Hibernia B-16 11 Oil Producer Suspended

Contact: Canada-Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board, (709) 778-1400

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Glossary of Petroleum Terminology

BOP/BOP Stack: Blowout preventers/blowout preventer stack - an assembly of heavy-duty valves attached to the wellhead to control well pressure and prevent a blowout.

Casing: Steel pipe set in a well to prevent the hole from sloughing or caving and to enable formations to be isolated (there may be several strings of casing in a well, one inside the other).

Cementing: Pumping a liquid slurry of cement, water and other additives behind a string of casing to isolate formations.

Completion/Completed::The activity necessary to prepare a well for the production of oil or gas or the injection of water or gas into the reservoir.

Fish: An object lost (or stuck) in the wellbore obstructing operations.

Fishing: Operations to recover fish.

Injecting: Injecting water or gas into the resevoir for the purpose of maintaining resevoir pressure, maximizing oil recovery and conserving resources.

Liner: A length of casing suspended from the base of a previously installed casing string (a liner does not extend back to the surface of the well).

Logging: Acquisition of downhole data using tools run in the well, usually on wireline.

Perforate/Perforating: Piercing the casing and cement using shaped explosive charges to provide a  flow path for formation fluids

Producing/Production: Flowing oil and/or gas from a well to the production systems.

Production tree: An arrangement of heavy duty valves and fittings installed on the wellhead to control flow from the well and/or to facilitate injection operations.

Reaming: An operation to restore a wellbore to its original diameter (occasionally, a wellbore will cave in).

Shut-in: A well in which the valves in the production tree have been closed to cease production or injection operation on a well.

Sidetracking: The operation of deviating a well around a fish.

Spud: The initial penetration of the ground or seafloor - the start of the drilling operation.

Suspension/Suspend: The temporary cessation of drilling or production operations in a well.

Well workover:  A program of work performed on an existing well.

Wellbore: The hole drilled by the drill bit.

Wellhead: Steel equipment installed at the surface of the well containing an assembly of heavy duty hangars and seals (the wellhead is used to support the weight of casing strings hung from it and to contain well pressure).

1999 03 30 10:55 a.m.

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