Isabela Oil Field

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Summary Information

  • Operator: BP
  • Country: USA
  • Location: 140 miles (225 kilometers) offshore New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Production start:
  • Partners:
  • Type: Oil
  • Estimated Reserves:
  • Production Volume:

+++ Description

  • The project is a subsea tie-back to the Na Kika Oil Field semi-submersible platform located in Mississippi Canyon, 140 miles (225 kilometers) offshore New Orleans, Louisiana, at a water depth of approximately 6,300 feet (1,920 meters)

+++ Contractors

  • **Technip:** project management, engineering, fabrication and installation of pipe-in-pipe flowlines, steel catenary risers and subsea equipments
  • **Nexans:** Isabela Umbilical

+++ History

  • 2007 - Isabela Oil Field discovered
  • 2009 - Technip awarded a subsea contract

+++ Geology

+++ Links

  1. Gulf Of Mexico Discoveries In Water Depths Greater Than 5000
  2. Nexans Norway Umbilical References
  3. Noble Energy Announces Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Discovery
  4. Technip awarded a subsea contract for the Isabela development in the Gulf of Mexico