Van Gogh

Oil production commenced in February 2010 at our Van Gogh development in Production License WA-35-L in the Exmouth Basin, offshore Western Australia. Apache, the Van Gogh field operator, owns a 52.5-percent interest in the field with INPEX owning the remaining interest. Van Gogh is located 32 miles (53 km) north-northwest of Exmouth. Van Gogh, discovered in 2003, is Apache's first field development utilizing a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The field was developed with 19 horizontal production laterals, two water injection wells and one gas injection well. The total horizontal interval drilled for all of the production wells exceeds 106,000 feet (32 km). The Ningaloo Vision FPSO has capacity to process 150,000 barrels of liquids per day, including 63,000 barrels of oil per day, and store 540,000 barrels of oil. www.apachevangogh.com.au

Devil Creek

Detailed engineering associated with the Devil Creek Development Project (DCDP) is essentially complete and procurement of materials and equipment is well advanced. Fabrication of the Reindeer Wellhead Platform has commenced in China, and the fabrication and assembly of the Devil Creek Gas Plant modules is underway in Thailand. Site construction works are underway at Devil Creek for the Gas Plant, Onshore Pipeline and Horizontal Directional Drilled (HDD) Shore Crossing. Contracts for the offshore pipeline and Wellhead Platform installation have been awarded and preparations are underway ready to commence this work in the third quarter of 2010. Gas delivery from the Reindeer field is expected to commence by the fourth quarter of 2011 at a rate of 110 terajoules (Tj) per day. Located south of Karratha in the northwest of Western Australia, DCDP will be West Australia's newest domestic gas hub and will be operated by Apache 55 percent. Gas customers will include both resoures and industrial operations.
www.apachedcdp.com.au

Pyrenees

Production commenced at the nearby BHP Billiton-operated Pyrenees FPSO development project in March 2010. Apache owns a 28.6-percent working interest. Production from the Crosby, Ravensworth and Stickle wells processed through the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel at Pyrenees is expected to be brought on in phases, with approximately half the field ramping up from first oil and the other half over the next six months.