Lucius Oil Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: Anadarko
- Country: USA
- Location: Keathley Canyon Blocks 874 & 875, Gulf of Mexico
- Production start: 2015
- Partners: Anadarko - 35%, Plains Exploration - 23.3%, Exxon Mobil - 15%, Apache - 11.7%, Petrobras - 9.6% and Eni - 5.4%
- Type: Oil / Gas
- Estimated Reserves:
- Production Volume:
Description
- The field is located in approximately 7,100 feet (2,165 meters) of water
- There are 6 subsea wells tied back to the truss spar floating production facility which has a capacity of more than 80,000 barrels of oil per day (BOPD) and 450 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.
- The platform will act as a hub for satellite fields including Hadrian South Gas Field
- The oil is to be transported via the Sekco Oil Pipeline to the Poseidon Oil Pipeline and thence to shore
- Associated gas is transported on the Discovery Gas Pipeline System
Contractors
- Technip:
- Engineering, construction and transport of the 23,000 ton Truss Spar hull
- Installation of a flexible flowline, multiple flexible gas lift jumpers; main gas lift and infield umbilicals; subsea distribution units; electrical, fiber optic and hydraulic flying leads, design and fabrication of the flexible flowline end termination, fabrication and installation of rigid jumpers, burial of flowlines, flooding and hydro-testing of the flowline system.
- Mustang: Topsides detailed engineering, procurement support and equipment inspection for the truss spar floating production facility
- FMC Technologies: Supply of five subsea production trees and two manifolds
- Aker Solutions: Project management, design, engineering, and manufacturing of two electro/hydraulic dynamic production umbilicals, two gas lift dynamic umbilicals, three electro/hydraulic infield umbilicals and one gas lift infield umbilical, including all associated ancillary equipment required for installation and interface with the existing development
- First Subsea: Lucius Spar Mooring Connector
History
- 2010 - Lucius Oil Field discovered
- 2011 - Finalization of a unitization agreement enables development to proceed
- 2011 - Technip awarded spar contract
- 2011 - Mustang Awarded topsides contract
- 2011 - Anadarko sanctions the project
- 2012 - Technip awarded subsea contract
- 2014 - Freeport-McMoRan acquires a stake from Apache
- 2015 - First production
Geology
Links
- Gulf Of Mexico Deepwater Natural Gas And Oil Qualified Fields
- First Subsea Awarded Lucius Spar Mooring Connector Contract
- Anadarko Announces Lucius Unitization
- Technip receives a Letter of Intent for the Lucius development project in the Gulf of Mexico
- Mustang Awarded Topsides Engineering for Anadarko’s Lucius Deepwater Spar Production Facility
- FMC Technologies Awarded Subsea Systems Contract From Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
- Umbilicals contract to Aker Solutions
- Anadarko Sanctions Lucius Project
- New Long-Term Gathering, Processing, Transportation Agreements for Lucius, Hadrian South Fields Signed in Support of New Project
- Technip awarded subsea contract for the Lucius field in the Gulf of Mexico
- Apache To Sell Lucius And Heidelberg Gulf Of Mexico Developments For $1.4 Billion
- Apache Completes Sale of Lucius and Heidelberg Gulf of Mexico Developments
- Eni announces the production start-up at Lucius oil field in Gulf of Mexico deepwater
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