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Compensation claims up to $77.54 million A maritime court in the northern coastal city of Tianjin on Friday accepted a case of compensation claims from aquaculture farmers against the China unit of ConocoPhillips, Xinhua News Agency reported on Friday.More than 100 fishermen filed the lawsuit early this month in Tianjin against ConocoPhillips China, seeking 490 million yuan ($77.54 million) in compensation for dead clams they said were killed by a spill from an oilfield operated by ConocoPhillips, according to Xinhua.ConocoPhillips has a 49 percent stake in the field, which is 51 percent owned by China's top offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC Ltd.A ConocoPhillips spokesperson said on December 16 that the company had found little evidence that the oil spill from Penglai 19-3 field had damaged the wider environment in Bohai Bay and submitted a revised overall development plan for the field to the central government.Soure: Reuters

String of oil leaks and spills in China's Bohai Bay The State Oceanic Administration of China stated on Friday that it was negligence by a ConocoPhillips subsidiary which caused the recent string of oil leaks and spills in China's Bohai Bay.The SOA released a statement following investigations that found there were serious shortcomings in ConocoPhillips China's management and operations, failing to take preventive measures against oil leaks even after signs of a serious problem emerged. The company also violated environmental impact assessment report requirements, which hindered their ability to respond to the accidents, causing further spillage.The incidents in question took place throughout June at Penglai 19-3, China's largest oil field. It was one problem after another for the ConocoPhillips operated, and state-owned partnered field that has caused major oceanic oil pollution and attracted sharp criticism from maritime authorities and environmentalists. The Chinese administration said that the oil spill covered around 2,400 square miles of surface water.Chinese officials have already ordered ConocoPhillips to stop all production before a full cleanup is conducted and passing a governmental review that is aimed to ensure no more oil makes its way into the ocean.Although Houston-based ConocoPhillips responded on Friday stressing that they are making ...

For offshore drilling in Indonesia Essar Shipping, a part of Essar Group, has bagged a contract worth USD 121 million from ConocoPhillips to drill 11 offshore wells in Indonesia.The company, which bagged the contract 3-4 weeks ago, has already deployed its semi submersible offshore rig, Essar Wildcat for this contract, a senior company official said."We are perhaps the first Indian drilling contractor to get an order from an international oil giant like ConocoPhillips. It is very momentous occasion for us as we have beaten some major international firms like Transocean and Maersk to get the contract," the official added.The Essar Wildcat has earlier drilled for Gujarat State Petroleum Corp in the Krishna-Godavari basin on Andhra coast.Before the contract from ConocoPhillips, the rig has been working with Vietsovpetro (a joint venture between PetroVietnam and Zarubezhneft) offshore Vietnam for the past one year.The oilfield services division of the company has an asset base of about USD 1 billion and it provides contract drilling services to oil and gas companies across the globe.The division has one semi-submersible rig and 12 land rigs. Besides this, the company is also constructing two offshore jack up rigs, which will be put into operation by end of ...

Beijing has yet to give the final say on a oil spill at a ConocoPhillips-operated oilfield China is considering overhauling regulations on joint offshore oil exploration with foreign companies, a Chinese newspaper reported on Monday, despite Beijing having yet to give the final say on a oil spill at a ConocoPhillips-operated oilfield.The proposed revisions, led by the Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR), would nail down the supervisory responsibilities of various government departments, the China Daily reported, citing unnamed sources.Government departments including the MLR, the National Energy Administration, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the State Oceanic Administration all have some jurisdiction over offshore activities.The proposed amendments, which are being discussed by officials and experts and may be sent to the State Council this year for approval, also include detailed penalties for environmental damages, the report said.Current regulations, introduced in 1982, lack specifics on the obligations and responsibilities of the government and companies when accidents occur, the report said.China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), the country's only firm authorized by the government to carry out domestic offshore oil exploration activities with foreign companies, has said that all oil spill sources had ...

ConocoPhilips should continue the clean-up work before winter comes No new leak point in seabed have been detected at ConocoPhillips' oil platforms in north China's Bohai Bay, with a decrease of the oil sheen on the sea surface, the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) said Sunday.After on-the-spot check-up at the Penglai 19-3 oilfield, inspection panel from the SOA said that certain achievements have been made in sealing off the oil spills sources, and the oil sheen on the sea surface have been cleaned immediately.The panel said that the oil leak sources have basically been determined, as well as the possible reason for the sporadic oil sheen.The spills are now under control, yet one or two liters of oil leak into the sea on a daily basis, and sporadic oil spots on the sea surface are still visible.The panel stressed that ConocoPhilips should firmly continue the clean-up work in a bid to achieve the complete seal-off of leak sources before winter comes, with the safety as the precondition.The SOA urged China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), ConocoPhilips' partner, to coordinate in the work, calling for immediate release of related information.More than 5,500 square km of water in Bohai Sea was polluted since ...

To address the impact of several oil spills at Bohai Bay China NationalOffshore OilCorp. (CEO), also known as CNOOC, said Tuesday that it is willing to establish a marine environmental fund with ConocoPhillips (COP), to address the impact of several oil spills at Bohai Bay.The move comes after China's State Oceanic Administration ordered a halt to all operations last week at the Penglai 19-3 oil field, which is jointly owned by both companies.ConocoPhillips, which operates the oil field, said last month it hadn't been notified of any claims resulting from the spills, but would consider them as they came.The U.S.-based oil company estimates that more than 3,200 barrels of oil and oil-based drilling fluids have been spilled at the site since early June.Source: Dow Jones Newswires

Operations are currently stopped at 180 producing wells and 51 injecting wells The oil spills from offshore wells operated by ConocoPhillips in China's Bohai Bay are posing political and technical challenges for the oil company far messier than the crude and drilling mud seeping from the seabed.The company said Monday that it had complied with a government order to suspend all drilling, water injection and production at the affected Penglai 19-3 oil field, one of China's biggest.Operations are currently stopped at 180 producing wells and 51 injecting wells, for a total of 231 wells, said a statement by Houston, Texas-based ConocoPhillips, which operates the field in a venture with state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp.CNOOC, which owns 51 percent of the venture, said the suspension of production in Penglai 19-3 would reduce output by 40,000 barrels a day, in addition to the 22,000 barrels a day lost with the shutdown of the two wells where the spills occurred.For such big oil companies, the loss is not a major blow, though for ConocoPhillips, Penglai 19-3 is its largest project in China, noted Thomas Grieder, analyst for Asia-Pacific energy at IHS Global Insight.The spills began in early June and have unleashed a ...

The spills released about 700 barrels of oil into Bohai Bay China's oceanic agency has ordered ConocoPhillips China to do more to prevent and clean up offshore spills in the Bohai Bay that have raised an outcry among fishermen and environmentalists.The State Oceanic Administration said Friday that its investigation found the company had failed to fully comply with orders to completely clean up damage from the spills and to ensure they would not recur.The agency ordered the oil company to suspend oil and gas production in the affected field, off China's eastern coast, until it carries out a series of steps to prevent further oil leaks and remove any spills. It also wants a full environmental impact assessment before production resumes.ConocoPhillips said it was drawing up a compliance plan along with its partner in the Bohai, China National Offshore Oil Corp."Activities that are related to depressurizing the field will continue in a safe and environmentally responsible way," it said in the statement released Friday.The spills, which occurred June 4 and June 17, released about 700 barrels of oil into Bohai Bay and 2,500 barrels of mineral oil-based drilling mud onto the seabed, it said.ConocoPhillips reported earlier this week that it ...

About 2 liters of oil and drilling mud were being released each day Under fire for oil spills off China's eastern coast, ConocoPhillips says it has finished collecting virtually all oil and drilling mud released into Bohai Bay, meeting a deadline to finish its cleanup by Wednesday.China's State Oceanic Administration, however, criticized the oil company's handling of the spills that began in June and said it would work with those affected, reportedly including scallops growers in the area, to seek compensation for damage.The administration had ordered ConocoPhillips China to complete the cleanup and fully contain the oil seeps by Aug. 31 or face unspecified harsher action.Of 16 small seeps found in the Penglai 19-3 oil field, only two were still visible and known to be sometimes active, ConocoPhillips China said. The seeps are of residual oil and drilling mud that has been shifting to the seabed from beneath a layer of sand, it says."While we are still cleaning up residual material on the seabed ... we believe we have achieved the 'two completes' by the deadline," the company said in a statement.The company, which operates wells in the field in a venture with state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp., said ...

Ocean, coastal and meteorological data NOAA, Shell Exploration & Production, ConocoPhillips, and Statoil USA E&P Inc.signed an agreement to enhance collaboration on ocean, coastal and climate science for the Arctic. The agreement calls for sharing a number of scientific data sets for this largely frontier region, including weather and ocean observations, biological information, and sea ice and sea floor mapping studies.This agreement provides a framework among the signatories to share high-quality data to enhance NOAA's ability to monitor climate change and provide useful products and services that inform responsible energy exploration activities in the region. Integrating these types of data could also provide a greater national capacity to effectively manage and respond to environmental disasters, such as hazardous spills, in an area where limited personnel and facilities exist.NOAA will conduct quality control on all data provided to the agency under this agreement before it is incorporated into NOAA products and services through compliance with OMB and NOAA guidelines implementing the Information Quality Act, for example, through peer review.Consistent with NOAA's commitment to openness and transparency, as highlighted most recently in its draft scientific integrity policy, NOAA will make the data obtained under this agreement available to the public except as ...