Murphy Oil Begins Operations at Canadian Gas Plant

Murphy Oil has begun operations at the Tupper West natural gas processing facility in north-eastern British Columbia, in Canada.

The Tupper West gas plant is located 39km from the Tupper Main facility in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, and has a capacity of 180 million cubic feet a day.

The plant is expected to produce 85 million cubic feet a day, with year-end exit rates of more than 120 million cubic feet a day in 2011.

Murphy Oil’s president and CEO David Wood said that increase of the low-cost Montney gas play would add to its growing production profile and is a key component in the North American resource portfolio.

Murphy Oil has a 100% working interest in the natural gas plant.