imagine going from 200 bbls per day to 35,000 barrels per day x 75 bucks hugee cash flows
15- 20 BUCKS A SHARE in my opinion only
OILXF OR OIL. TO IN CANADA
REUTERS Canada's Oilexco aims for Oct N.Sea oilfield start
LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) - Canada's Oilexco aims to start production from its UK North Sea Brenda and Nicol fields in October and expects output to reach 30,000 barrels per day next year, a company executive said on Tuesday.
The development is Oilexpo's first as an operator in the North Sea.
Britain hopes new entrants such as Oilexpo to the ageing North Sea industry wil help slow declining output in the region.
"Our target is October this year for first oil," Oilexco Investor Relations Manager Rob Elgie told Reuters on Tuesday.
Production was expected to peak at 35,000 bpd later when another well is drilled and connected, he said.
Oil industry group the UK Offshore Operators Association (UKOOA) forecast on Tuesday that combined UK oil and gas output would rise 300,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) to 3.3 million boepd in 2007, the first annual rise in output since 1999.
Record oil prices have helped fuel a late-life boom in the North Sea industry, and the UK received a record number of applicants
Brenda and Nicol oil production will be tied back to the Balmoral floating production vessel operated by Canadian Natural Resources and be pumped through the BP-owned Forties pipeline to the UK.
Oilexpo is 100 percent owner of the Brenda field and 70 percent owner of Nicol. ConocoPhillips and Agip own the remaining 30 percent, but have agreed to relinquish ownership after they have lifted a total 1.25 million barrels from the field's production.
Oilexpo's current North Sea ouptut is a few hundred barrels per day, which it receives as a non-operating equity holder in the Balmoral and Glamis fields.
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