BP subsea deepwater project Thunder Horse to be onstream by year end
2008.07.29 -
Projects
During a briefing today in relation to BP's second quarter release, the Group Chief Executive, Tony Hayward said that Gulf of Mexico subsea project Thunder Horse should be onstream by the end of the year as BP has annonced earlier. Hayward said that Thunder Horse is on the very frontier of what the subsea industry has achieved in deepwater.
It was also confirmed that commisioning of Thunder Horse was underway with early production from the first well in Thunder Horse south. Further wells from this area is expected to be brought onstream through the remainder of this year. Thunder Horse North will be starting up in the second half of 2009, Hayward said.
Thunder Horse is one of the key discoveries upon which BP will grow its future Gulf of Mexico production. Designed to process 250,000 barrels of oil per day and 200 million cubic feet per day of natural gas, Thunder Horse will be the largest producer in the Gulf. The field will be supported by a network of 25 subsea wells.
The FPSO Sevan Piranema has today commenced oil production on the Piranema field, off the coast of Aracaju, in the state of Sergipe, Brasil.
Q is located in Mississippi Canyon block 961. The natural gas field is developed as a subsea tieback to the Anadarko-operated Independence Hub facility in the eastern US Gulf of Mexico. StatoilHydro has a 50% working interest in the Q field.
The Piranema field, 25 km off the coast of Sergipe, started producing oil this Wednesday (10/10), in deep Northeastern Brazil waters. With operations going online in this field, Petrobras is taking another step towards maintaining Brazil’s oil self-sufficiency. The Piranema oil, of excellent quality, at 44º API, is the lightest oil produced in deep waters in Brazil.
The first tanker with a cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Snøhvit field left port at Melkøya near Hammerfest, northern Norway
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announced today that its subsidiary, Esso Exploration Angola (Block 15) Limited, has started production from the Marimba North project, designed to develop 80 million barrels of oil in approximately 3,900 feet (1,300 meters) of water more than 90 miles (145 kilometers) off the coast of Angola.
