Phase2 covers the subsequentincrementaldevelopmentof the restof the field with a newCentralProcessingFacilityandsevennewWellsexpected to come on stream during 2017.
In mid-July Shell began the first of seven wildcat wells it will drill this year in the Kingdom's Rub al-Khali, a desert known as the Empty Quarter (a name Van der Veer hopes is merely metaphorical).
ExxonMobil said in its filing at the Australian Department of the Environment today that its barge would be approximately 1623 feet long and 246 feet wide with gas fed into its super-chilling system from an initial seven production wells to be drilled in 2018 and 2019, with five more to be drilled to some 15 years later.