BP Marks Fourth Large 2018 Project Start-Up
BP has confirmed that its Thunder Horse Northwest Expansion project in the US deepwater Gulf started producing October 18, four months ahead of schedule. The expansion project took 16 months to develop.
It adds an estimated 30,000 boe/d production, taking gross output at one of the largest oil fields in the US Gulf to over 200,000 boe/d. Developed with partner ExxonMobil, the Thunder Horse platform sits in more than 6,000 feet of water, started producing June 2008, and has capacity (gross) to handle 250,000 b/d oil and 200mn ft3/d gas
This is BP's fourth major project start-up in 2018, it said, following its Atoll gas offshore Egypt, Shah Deniz 2 gas in Azerbaijan, and Taas expansion in Russia.
Three other projects targeted to start by end-2018 remain "on track", says BP: the West Nile Delta (WND) phase 2 gas project offshore Egypt which includes eight wells from the Giza and Fayoum fields to develop a further 5 trillion ft3 of gas resources and 55mn of condensates; plus the Clair Ridge phase 2 oil project in the UK west of Shetland area, and Constellation oilfield in the US Gulf.