The Suizhong 36-2 Oilfield 36-2 Block Growth Venture within the Bohai Sea is now onstream, contributing gentle crude oil to CNOOC Ltd.’s manufacturing.
The state-backed oil and gasoline exploration and manufacturing firm expects the challenge to achieve about 9,700 barrels of oil equal a day (boed) in peak manufacturing in 2026, in keeping with an announcement on CNOOC Ltd.’s web site.
The Suizhong 36-2 Oilfield 36-2 Block Growth Venture, 100% owned by CNOOC Ltd., sits in Liaodong Bay in water depths of about 27 meters (88.58 ft) on common.
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The challenge has a brand new unmanned wellhead platform as the principle manufacturing facility but additionally depends on the amenities of adjoining producing initiatives to course of and transport petroleum, in keeping with CNOOC Ltd.
CNOOC Ltd., majority-owned by China Nationwide Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), eyes 21 growth wells within the challenge, 16 of which might be for manufacturing. The remaining 5 can be for water injection.
Earlier this month CNOOC Ltd. introduced the startup of the Jinzhou 23-2 Oilfield Growth Venture, additionally within the Bohai Sea, calling it “the primary multi-layer heavy oil thermal restoration challenge offshore China”.
The corporate expects the challenge to achieve about 17,000 boed in peak manufacturing in 2027. The oil is heavy crude.
“The challenge adopts the tactic of ‘steam stimulation+chemical auxiliary steam flooding’ to cut back the viscosity of crude oil, thus successfully enhance [sic] the utilization of reserves in offshore heavy oil subject”, CNOOC Ltd. stated in a press launch December 3.
“It should strengthen the power provide to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area”.
The manufacturing amenities embody two new central processing platforms. CNOOC Ltd. eyes 67 growth wells within the challenge, 65 of which might be for manufacturing. The remaining two can be water supply wells.
Jinzhou 23-2, absolutely owned by CNOOC Ltd., sits on the northern a part of the Bohai Sea in water depths of round 13 meters (42.65 ft) on common, in keeping with the corporate. The Bohai Sea is the northwestern a part of the Yellow Sea, which is sandwiched between the Chinese language mainland and the Korean Peninsula.
CNOOC Ltd. has now introduced 5 start-ups in Bohai waters this 12 months. The three earlier ones are the Bozhong 19-2 Oilfield Growth Venture, the Bozhong 19-6 Fuel Discipline 13-2 Block 5 Nicely Web site Growth Venture and the Suizhong 36-1/Luda 5-2 Oilfield Secondary Adjustment and Growth Venture.
Additionally this month CNOOC Ltd. introduced its sixth startup within the South China Sea in 2024, the Huizhou 26-6 Oilfield Growth Venture within the Pearl River Mouth Basin.
Huizhou 26-6, CNOOC Ltd.’s “first deep buried hill reservoir growth challenge within the South China Sea”, is anticipated to achieve about 20,600 boed in peak manufacturing in 2027, it stated December 2. The challenge, which has a mean water depth of round 110 meters (360.89 ft), primarily produces gentle crude and pure gasoline.
The only proprietor plans to fee 19 wells consisting of 17 for gasoline manufacturing and two for oil manufacturing. “The primary manufacturing amenities embody a brand new clever drilling manufacturing platform, in addition to the adaptively-modified ‘NAN HAI FEN JIN’ FPSO [floating production, storage and offloading unit]”, CNOOC Ltd. stated.
“The Firm has been actively adopting the state-of-art applied sciences”, it added. “The primary clever offshore drilling manufacturing platform in China was constructed for this challenge to understand environment friendly growth of the offshore oil and gasoline assets”.
“The brand new challenge will contribute to the financial and social growth of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Higher Bay Space”, it stated.
Within the South China Sea, earlier than Huizhou 26-6, CNOOC Ltd. put onstream the Liuhua 11-1/4-1 Oilfield Secondary Growth Venture, the Shenhai-1 Section II Pure Fuel Growth Venture, the Wushi 17-2 Oilfields Growth Venture, the Wushi 23-5 Oilfields Growth Venture and the Xijiang 30-2 Oilfield Xijiang 30-1 Block Growth Venture.
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