Production from the Pateke-3H well in the offshore Taranaki Tui area oilfields restarted at the weekend after being shut-in since late June.New Zealand Oil&Gas, which has a 12.5 percent stake in Tui, said technical issues that delayed initial efforts
Production from the Pateke-3H well in the offshore Taranaki Tui area oilfields restarted at the weekend after being shut-in since late June.
New Zealand Oil&Gas, which has a 12.5 percent stake in Tui, said technical issues that delayed initial efforts to restart the well had been resolved and Pateke-3H had resumed flowing at over 4000 barrels of oil per day (bopd).
Some initial "flush" production had been achieved and it was expected that the Pateke-3H well would settle at the longer term production forecast of about 3000 bopd, NZOG said today.
The Tui area fields were now back and flowing from all four wells, with field production in the last two days exceeding 10,000 bopd.
Other companies with stakes in Tui are AWE, the field operator, with 42.5 percent, Mitsui E&P Australia with 35 percent, and Pan Pacific Petroleum with 10 percent.
