TAG geologist and geotechnical specialist Alexandra Johansen took a tour of Sidewinder and the newly completed Cheal oil and gas processing facility with a few other members of the team. We think you’ll agree, these shots are a far cry from the bare patch of land we shared back in August.
Great job to the team for their hard work freeing up our behind pipe oil and gas. But as ever, the work continues: Our engineers are busy tying the remaining wells into the plant, and over the next several weeks they’ll be fine tuning to make sure we get the flow optimized.
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Overview of the gas plant looking towards Rival #1 on Cheal A-11: complete, and fully running right on time!
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Shane Hamnett, Alex Johansen and Jack Doyle in the middle of the gas plant.
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The vector meter skid at the Cheal C site. It may not look like much but it was the last piece of work before we turned Cheal gas on to the sales line.
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Pig (pipeline inspection gauges) launchers to maintain the pipelines from C-to-A, A-to-C, and C-to-Vector, without having to interrupt the flow of hydrocarbons.
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9 5/8" casing awaiting intermediate casing point on Sidewinder A-7HF. We normally run 8 1/2" casing, but this hole will be going to 4000m.
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Shane and Alex at the Cheal A-Site, with the Rival Rig #1 in the background for workover.
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Gas-to-gas exchanger with the de-ethanizer tower in the background, on a beautiful New Zealand fall day.
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Topics:
Cheal Production Facility,
Cheal-C site,
Announcements,
pipeline,
Jack Doyle
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(Top) No more flaring to dirt pits for TAG! This is one of our new "flare stacks" with built in containment. Though commonplace in Canada, this is a first in New Zealand. Other New Zealand operators are very interested to see how these work, as are the regulatory bodies in New Zealand.
(Left) We’ve added attenuators (mufflers) on top of the power units for Nova-1. These cut the rig noise almost in half, appreciated by neighbors and our team alike.
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Cheal Production Station flare, which will be sold once the infrastructure upgrade is finished.
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Here’s Jesse, a Cheal operator, enjoying the winter sunshine as TAG tankers "fill'er up."
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Topics:
Cheal Production Facility,
Mt. Messenger,
Taranaki,
Cheal-C site,
New Zealand,
pipeline,
Cheal Oil Field,
oil and gas production
David Beddis of Cormark Securities Inc. is now following TAG Oil. The current list of analysts includes: Peter Nicol of GMP Securities, Bill Newman of Mackie Research Capital, and Kevin Shaw of Wellington West Capital Markets Inc.
While any opinions regarding TAG’s performance made by these analysts are theirs alone, we think the coverage is an indication of TAG Oil’s sound strategy borne out by recent drilling and discovery results.
Meanwhile, lots of welding along the roadside as our pipeline grows. Most of this should be buried within a couple days. The pipe with the big bends will be done after....
Topics:
third-party reports,
Financial coverage,
pipeline
And some more Sidewinder gas pipeline photos are in from the field, these showing some of the welding process. The drizzle shouldn't slow things down, as TAG works to link its gas discovery with the North Island's main high-capacity pipeline.
Topics:
pipeline,
Sidewinder Discovery
Here we are building, on a great fall day, the pipeline that will link gas from TAG's Sidewinder oil and gas discovery into the Taranaki Basin's main high-capacity pipeline.
Topics:
pipeline,
Sidewinder Discovery
