Kuito Oil Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: Chevron
- Country: Angola
- Location: Offshore
- Production start: 2000
- Partners: Sonangol, Agip, Total and Petrogal
- Type: Kuito Crude
- Estimated Reserves:
- Production Volume:
Description
- Offshore Cabinda, Angola, at a water depth of approximately 400 meters
- Kuito is the first deepwater oil field offshore Angola to start commercial production
- Underwater facilities are linked to a Floating Process Storage Offloading, the Kuito FPSO vessel through a piping and manifolds network.
- The FPSO vessel is connected to a loading buoy where export tankers will tie up to load the crude oil
- A subsea water injection system, installed in conjunction with the initial subsea production system and controlled aboard the FPSO, enhances production from the field
- Phase 1A included Kuito FPSO, 12 producing wells, an oil export system and one gas-injection well
- Phase 1B included 5 water-injection wells produced through a separate subsea injection manifold
- Phase 1C includes a separate subsea production manifold, flowlines and umbilicals, as well as seven producing and four water-injection wells.
Contractors
- SBM Offshore: Provision of FPSO
- Asea Brown Boveri and Coflexip Stena Offshore: Sub-sea wellheads and piping
- Sedco-Forex: Drilling and completion
History
- 1997 - Kuito Oil Field discovered
- 1998 - Chevron Awards Contracts For Development
- 1999 - Naming Of FPSO Kuito
- 2000 - First production
- 2001 - Phase 1C production started
Geology
Links
- Chevron Awards Contracts For Development Of Kuito Field
- Chevron Announces Naming Of FPSO Kuito
- First Commercial Production Starts in the Kuito Deepwater Oil Field on Block 14 Offshore Angola
- Chevron Starts Production From Angola's First Deep-water Oil Field
- ChevronTexaco, Partners Announce First Oil Production From The Next Phase Of Kuito Development
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