BP will produce Block 28 wells into the B template manifold, then ship the gas and fluids 4-4 1/2 miles in multiphase flow through subsea pipelines to Pompano's Block 989 platform. In Phase 2, BP will install the B template in about 1,800 ft of water on Mississippi Canyon 28, through which it will drill and complete 10 more wells. Pompano gas will move to a fie-in with Southern Natural Gas Co.'s gas pipeline system, also on Block 62. Pompano oil is to flow by subsea pipeline to a tie-in with Shell's gathering system on South Pass Block 62. Plans call for BP to begin completing the 10 predrilled wells this month. The 37,000 ton Pompano jacket was launched from Port Aransas, Tex., in July. Phase 1 components include the 10 predrilled wells, fabrication and installation of Pompano A template and platform jacket and deck, and two subsea oil and gas pipelines.īP predrilled the first 10 Pompano wells through the A template on Viosca Knoll 989. Included is equipment capable of reinjecting as much as 60,000 b/d of fluid. Production equipment on Pompano platform's topsides is designed to handle 40,000 b/d of oil, 50 MMcfd of gas, and 40,000 b/d of produced water. Pompano Phase 1 production is to begin in the fourth quarter from 10 wells predrilled through a subsea template on Viosca Knoll 989.

The gulf's only taller fixed platform is Shell Offshore Inc.'s 1,365 ft tall Bullwinkle structure in 1,353 ft of water on Green Canyon Block 65, 150 miles south-southwest of New Orleans.īP's Pompano unit covers Viosca Knoll Blocks 989 and 990 and Mississippi Canyon Blocks 27, 28, and 72.

The 1,565 ft tall, 40 slot platform on BP's five tract Pompano oil and gas development project rests in 1,290 ft of water on Viosca Knoll Block 989, about 120 miles southeast of New Orleans. late last month finished installing the jacket and deck of the Gulf of Mexico's second tallest fixed platform.

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