Woodside start gas production from its Angel Field
2008.10.03 -
Projects
The North West Shelf Venture’s third major offshore gas production facility, the new Angel Platform,
is now operational and producing gas for processing at its Karratha Gas Plant in Western Australia.
The A$1.6 billion development involved the installation of a new platform and associated
infrastructure, including a 50km subsea pipeline tied back to the existing North Rankin A platform.
Located approximately 120km north-west of Karratha, the Angel Platform stands in about 80 metres
of water and is supplied by three subsea production wells. The unique design of the Angel Platform
enables it to be safely and securely powered and remotely controlled from the North Rankin A
Platform via a subsea cable.
With a production capacity of 800 million standard cubic feet of raw gas and up to 50,000 barrels of
condensate a day, hydrocarbons from the Angel Platform will be processed through the North West
Shelf Venture’s integrated system, which now includes the Train 5 LNG production facility at the
Karratha Gas Plant.
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.
