CNOOC Ltd has began manufacturing within the Weizhou 11-4 Oilfield Adjustment and Satellite tv for pc Fields Growth Challenge within the Beibu Gulf Basin of the South China Sea.
That is the corporate’s twelfth introduced startup offshore China this yr, and the sixth within the South China Sea. Together with two tasks in Brazilian waters and Guyana’s Yellowtail, the publicly listed arm of China Nationwide Offshore Oil Corp has now introduced 15 upstream startups in 2025.
CNOOC Ltd expects the most recent startup to achieve its capability of about 16,900 barrels of oil equal a day in 2026. The oil is mild crude, in keeping with the corporate.
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The event plan eyes 35 wells: 28 for manufacturing and 7 for water injection.
“The primary manufacturing services embrace a newly-built unmanned wellhead platform and a central processing platform, that are related to an present platform by means of a trestle bridge”, CNOOC Ltd stated in a press launch.
“The undertaking has adopted a coordinated improvement plan of ‘three offshore processing facilities + one onshore terminal’, serving as a gathering and transportation hub to launch the useful resource capability and guarantee steady vitality provide within the area”, the only proprietor stated.
The undertaking has a mean water depth of round 43 meters (141.08 toes), in keeping with CNOOC Ltd.
Earlier this yr it put on-line 5 tasks within the South China Sea: the Dongfang 29-1 subject, the Panyu 11-12/10-1/10-2 Oilfield Adjustment Joint Growth Challenge, the Weizhou 5-3 subject, the Wenchang 16-2 subject and part II of the Wenchang 19-1 subject.
Within the Bohai Sea, CNOOC Ltd put onstream 4 tasks in 2025: part I of the Bozhong 26-6 subject, the Caofeidian 6-4 subject adjustment, part I of the Kenli 10-2 Oilfields Growth Challenge and part II of the Luda 5-2 North subject.
Within the Yinggehai Basin, two got here on-line this yr: the Dongfang 1-1 Gasoline Area 13-3 Block Growth Challenge and the Dongfang 29-1 subject.
Abroad, CNOOC Ltd and its companions introduced on-line the Yellowtail undertaking in Guyana’s Stabroek block, the place it owns a 25 p.c stake. With a peak output of 250,000 barrels per day (bpd), the fourth and largest improvement in Stabroek has raised the offshore block’s manufacturing capability to over 900,000 bpd, in keeping with operator Exxon Mobil Corp.
Offshore Brazil, CNOOC Ltd and its companions fired up Buzios7 within the Buzios subject and Mero4 within the Mero subject. Each fields are within the Santos Basin and operated by state-controlled Petroleo Brasileiro SA. CNOOC Ltd owns 9.65 p.c in Mero and seven.34 p.c in Buzios.
Within the first 9 months of 2025 CNOOC Ltd produced 578.3 million barrels of oil equal internet, up 6.7 p.c from the identical interval in 2025 with pure gasoline manufacturing rising by 11.6 p.c, in keeping with its third quarter report October 30. Its Chinese language and abroad internet manufacturing elevated 8.6 p.c and a couple of.6 p.c year-on-year respectively.
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