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An official from Maersk Oil, has said that the new platforms being installed at the Al Shaheen oilfield in Qatar would complete the commissioning process by the end of the first quarter of 2010.
The Dow Jones reported that Maersk’s group press officer Michael Storgaard said that the new platforms would raise crude output from the filed.
“Commissioning has been going on since 2008-09 for a number of facilities…only the last platforms that were most recently installed haven’t been commissioned yet,” Storgaard is reported as saying.
Storgaard added that confidentiality agreements prevented him from saying exactly how much extra oil would be produced from the field.
In 2008 the average production from Al Shaheen was 330,000 barrels per day (bpd) but Qatar’s oil minister, Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, has said output could reach over 500,000 bpd in the future.
Maersk announced that its share of production for the first nine months of last year was 67 million barrels, up 30% on year.
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