Allegheny Oil and Gas Field

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Summary Information

  • Operator: ENI
  • ENI Oil and Gas Fields
  • Country: USA
  • Location: Green Canyon Block 254, Gulf of Mexico
  • Production start: 1999
  • Partners:
  • Type: Oil & Gas
  • Estimated Reserves:
  • Production Volume:

+++ Description

  • The **King Kong** (Green Canyon Blocks 472, 473 & 516) and Yosemite project, is developed by three subsea wells at 1170 meters of water depth, connected to the Allegheny platform, approximately 25 km away
  • The Pegasus field (Green Canyon Block 385) has been developed as a tie back to the Allegheny Tension Leg Platform

+++ Contractors

  • **Gulf Island Fabrication:** Allegheny Sea Star Hull construction

+++ History

  • 1985 - Allegheny Oil And Gas Field discovered
  • 1989 - King Kong discovered
  • 1999 - First production
  • 2002 - Production starts at King Kong and Yosemite
  • 2008 - The Pegasus field came onstream

+++ Geology

+++ Links

  1. [[[Gulf Of Mexico Permanent Deepwater Structures]]]
  2. [[[Gulf Of Mexico Deepwater Natural Gas And Oil Qualified Fields]]]
  3. [[[Gulf Island Fabrication Platform References]]]
  4. Eni Announces Production Begins from its King Kong and Yosemite Gulf of Mexico Projects
  5. Eni starts production from a new oil field in the GoM