Notice of Commencement of an Environmental Assessment

White Rose Extension Project
Jeanne d'Arc Basin (NL)

June 8, 2012 -- The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board is required to ensure that a screening is conducted pursuant to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act commencing on June 7, 2012 in relation to the project: White Rose Extension Project.

Husky Oil Operations Limited, on behalf of its co-venturers, is proposing the White Rose Extension Project (WREP) at the White Rose Field, northeast Grand Banks. A Wellhead Platform (WHP) option will include activities associated with engineering, procurement, construction, fabrication, installation, commissioning, development drilling, operations and maintenance, decommissioning of a concrete gravity structure (CGS), and construction of up to three drill centres. The WHP will involve construction activities at two locations, the White Rose Field and Argentia, Placentia Bay. A subsea drill centre development option will include development of the West White Rose drill centre and construction of up to three additional subsea drill centres. Drilling of the subsea wells will be done from a mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU). Both development options will be tied back to the existing SeaRose floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. Construction activities are scheduled to commence in 2013, with petroleum production to begin in 2016 or 2017.

An environmental assessment is required in relation to the project because the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board may take action in relation to paragraph 138(1)(b) of the Canada-Newfoundland Atlantic Accord Implementation Act.

For further information on this environmental assessment, please contact:
Elizabeth Young
Telephone : 709-778-1400
Fax : 709-778-1473
Email : ead@cnlopb.nl.ca

and refer to Registry reference number 12-01-68249