Offshore staff
PERTH, Australia — Woodside Energy has issued updates on its current offshore field development projects in the US and Australia in its latest results statement.
In the Gulf of Mexico, operator bp has drilled a successful appraisal well, SWX4, in the southwestern part of the Mad Dog Field, and the partners are now assessing a multi-well tieback to the recently onstream Argos semisubmersible production platform.
The second of two wells has been completed on the Shenzi North project. The first of three subsea installation campaigns has finished, involving installation of manifolds and high-integrity pressure protection systems.
Offshore Western Australia, the FPSO Ngujima-Yin should resume operations shortly following a five-year maintenance turnaround in a Singapore drydock. At Enfield, 13 of the 18 wells have now been plugged and 16 of 18 xmas trees have been removed.
The Scarborough and Pluto Train 2 project is 38% complete, with fabrication ramping up of the floating production unit’s topsides and hull. Upstream pipeline manufacturing has finished, with pipeline coating underway.
In the Bass Strait offshore southeastern Australia, the commercial tender process has started for decommissioning various facilities in the Gippsland Basin and continued plugging and abandonment of wells that are no longer producing.
FEED work continues for Phase 1 of the South East Australia carbon capture and storage (SEA CCS) project, which aims to use existing infrastructure to store CO2 in the depleted Bream Field off the coast of Gippsland, Victoria.
07.19.2023
