Production 

This section describes our production outside Norway.
StatoilHydro's petroleum production outside Norway amounted to an average of 290 mboe per day of entitlement production and 465 mboe per day of equity production in 2008. The total annual entitlement production in 2008 was approximately 106 mmboe, compared with 112 mmboe in 2007.


For the year ended 31 December

 

2008

 

2007

 

2006

Oil and NGL Natural gas   Oil and NGL Natural gas     Oil and NGL Natural gas  
Production

mbbl

mmcm

mboe

  

mbbl

mmcm

mboe

 

mbbl

mmcm

mboe

                       
Total

232

9

290

  

252

9

307

 

194

6

234


The first table shows our average daily entitlement production of oil, including NGL and condensates, and natural gas for the years ending 31 December 2008, 2007 and 2006.

New fields that came on stream in 2008 were Mondo and Saxi-Batuque in Angola, Deep Water Gunashli in Azerbaijan, Agbami in Nigeria and South Pars in Iran. In addition we purchased a 32.5% interest in the Marcellus shale gas acreage in the USA.

Field

StatoilHydro's equity interest in percent

Operator

On stream

License expiry

Producing wells

Development wells

             
North America          
Canada: Hibernia 5.00% HMDC 1997 2027 31 1
Canada: Terra Nova 15.00% PetroCan 2002 2022 15 0
USA: Lorien 30.00% Noble 2006 2012 2 0
USA: Front Runner 25.00% Murphy Oil 2004 2010 6 0
USA: Spiderman Gas 18.33% Anadarko 2007 2012 3 0
USA: Q Gas 50.00% StatoilHydro 2007 2014 1 0
USA: San Jacinto Gas 26.67% ENI 2007 2012 2 0
USA: Zia 35.00% Devon 2003 2008 (1) 1 0
USA: Seventeen Hands 25.00% Dominion 2006 2010 1 0
USA: Marcellus shale gas 32.50% Chesapeake 2008 n/a 24 4
 
Latin America            
Venezuela: Sincor (2) 15.00% Sincor 2001 2008 n/a n/a
Venezuela: PetroCedeño (2) 9.68% PetroCedeño 2008 2032 351 71
 
Africa          
Algeria: In Salah 31.85% Sonatrach/BP/StatoilHydro 2004 2027 30 4
Algeria: In Amenas (3) 50.00% Sonatrach/BP/StatoilHydro 2006 2022 16 8
Angola: Kizomba A 13.33% ExxonMobil 2004 2026 29 1
Angola: Kizomba B 13.33% ExxonMobil 2005 2027 22 1
Angola: Xikomba 13.33% ExxonMobil 2003 2027 4 0
Angola: Marimba North 13.33% ExxonMobil 2007 2027 2 0
Angola: Mondo 13.33% ExxonMobil 2008 2029 8 1
Angola: Saxi-Batuque 13.33% ExxonMobil 2008 2029 6 1
Angola: Girassol/Jasmim 23.33% Total 2001 2022 24 0
Angola: Dalia 23.33% Total 2006 2024 18 4
Angola: Rosa 23.33% Total 2007 2027 12 0
Libya: Mabruk (4) 25.00% Total 1995 2028 48 1
Libya: Murzuq (4) 2.40% Repsol 2003 2023 104 5
Nigeria: Agbami 18.85% Chevron 2008 2024 7 19
 
Europe, Caspian and Russia          
Azerbaijan: ACG 8.56% BP 1997 2024 52 2
Azerbaijan: Shah Deniz 25.50% BP 2006 2031 4 1
Russia: Kharyaga 40.00% Total 1999 2032 14 2
UK: Alba 17.00% Chevron 1994 2018 36 0
UK: Caledonia 21.32% Chevron 2003 2018 1 0
UK: Jupiter 30.00% ConocoPhillips 1995 2010 15 0
UK: Schiehallion 5.88% BP 1998 2017 21 1
 
The Middle East and Asia          
China: Lufeng 75.00% StatoilHydro 1997 2011 4  
Iran: South Pars 37.00% POGC 2008 2012 30  
 
Total International E&P         944 127
             
 (1) Held by production
(2) On 9 February 2008, Sincor in Venezuela was transformed into an incorporated joint venture known as Petrocedeño, S.A. and partially nationalized. Our share was reduced from 15% in Sincor to 9.68% in Petrocedeño.
(3) Production under the terms of the In Amenas PSA commenced December 2006
(4) Renegotiations of PSAs by the NOC in Libya have resulted in a reduced equity share. Our equity share of production in Murzuq was reduced from 8.0% to 2.4% effective as of 1 January 2008. Renegotiations are ongoing for Mabruk


Country

Average daily equity production (1) mboe/day

Average daily entitlement production (2) mboe/day

North America    
Canada 22.3 22.3
USA

17.6

17.5

   
Latin America    
Venezuela: Sincor (3)

1.0

1.0

   
Africa    
Algeria 65.7 30.4
Angola 204 117
Libya (4) 11.0 5.2
Nigeria

7.7

7.7

   
Europe, Caspian and Russia    
Azeribaijan 100 56.4
Russia 7.7 5.7
UK

9.1

9.1

   
The Middle East and Asia    
China 1.7 1.6
Iran

0.8

0.8

   
Subtotal International E&P production

449

275

   
Equity accounted production    
Venezuela: PetroCedeño (3)

15.7

15.7

   
Total International E&P including share of equity accounted production 465 290
     
(1) In PSA countries our shares of capital expenditures and operational expenses are computed on the basis of equity production
(2) Production figures are after deductions for royalties, production sharing and profit sharing
(3) On 9 February 2008, Sincor in Venezuela was transformed into an incorporated joint venture known as Petrocedeño, S.A. and partially nationalized. Our share was reduced from 15% in Sincor to 9.68% in Petrocedeño. As of the date of migration our share has been accounted for pursuant to the equity accounting method.
(4) Renegotiations of PSAs by the NOC in Libya have resulted in a reduced equity share. Our equity share of production in Murzuq was reduced from 8.0% to 2.4% effective as of 1 January 2008. Reported volumes are after old equity share and there has been a cash settlement for the difference.
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