Mexico: Chevron lets contract for Big Foot work.Byline: manish03 Chevron USA Inc. plans to develop Big Foot oil field in the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east with a dry-tree floating drilling and production facility in 5,300 ft of water. The company let a contract to KBR KBR Kellogg, Brown and Root KBr Potassium Bromide KBR Key-Based Routing KBR Kota Bharu, Malaysia - Sultan Ismail Petra (Airport Code) KBR Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België / Bibliothèque royale de Belgique Inc. for front-end engineering and design of the topsides of the facility, the hull of which will be an extended tension-leg platform. Oil and gas processing equipment on the topsides will include inlet separation, gas compression, dehydration and export, oil treatment and export pumping, produced-water treatment, and required utility systems, KBR said. Initial installation will include water injection facilities for reservoir pressure maintenance early in the field s life. KBR will provide engineering and project management services to develop the process design; specify the required equipment; lay out, modularize, and integrate the decks; perform structural analyses; and provide the electrical power generation and distribution system to support the platform and electrical submersible pumps. The field, a 2006 discovery, is on Walker Ridge Block 29 about 200 miles from New Orleans and 180 miles offshore. It s 35 miles south of Chevron s Tahiti oil field, where production started in May in 4,100 ft of water from two subsea Subsea is a general term frequently used to refer to equipment, technology, and methods employed to explore, drill, and develop oil and gas fields that exist below the ocean floors. This may be in "shallow" or "deepwater". drill centers tied back to production equipment on a truss truss, in architecture and engineering, a supporting structure or framework composed of beams, girders, or rods commonly of steel or wood lying in a single plane. spar (OGJ OGJ Oil & Gas Journal , May 11, 2009, Newsletter). Production rates haven t been disclosed. Chevron, operator, holds 60% working interest in Big Foot. Partners are Statoil Gulf of Mexico LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control and Marubeni Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. Chevron earlier signed a letter of intent with Enbridge Inc. for a 40-mile, 20-in. OD pipeline to carry Big Foot oil to a connection with existing pipelines (OGJ, Oct. 12, 2009, Newsletter). Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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