Tuesday, July 3, 2007

BHP's Pyrenees Oil Field in Australia May Help Increase Oil Production 22%

(Bloomberg) -- BHP Billiton Ltd., Australia's largest
oil and gas producer, may raise its annual output by as much as
22 percent after approving the $1.7 billion Pyrenees crude
project off the northwestern coast.

The field, in which it owns a 71 percent stake, will deliver
as much as 96,000 barrels of oil a day when it starts in 2010,
the Melbourne-based company said in a statement yesterday. The
production gain was derived by Bloomberg based on the company's
output of 116 million barrels in the year ended June 2006.


Read more at Bloomberg Energy News

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