Appaloosa Oil Field

Summary Information

• Operator: ENI
• ENI Oil and Gas Fields
• Country: USA
• Location: Mississippi Canyon Blocks 459, 460, 503 and 504
• Production start: 2011
• Partners:
• Type: Oil / Gas
• Estimated Reserves:
• Production Volume:

+++ Description

• Appaloosa production is through a subsea development and a twenty-mile long flow line tied back to the Corral Platform

+++ Contractors

• **Technip:**
  • Project Management and surveys
  • Engineering, fabrication and installation of a 21-mile long (34-kilometer) production flowline(1), a riser(2) and subsea equipment,
  • Installation of free issued umbilical(3) and flying leads,
  • Pre-commissioning and dewatering of the flowline.
• **Manatee:** Subsea control system, umbilicals, subsea operating procedures, and created the B-MAP interactive manual.

+++ History

• 2007 - Appaloosa Oil Field discovered
• 2008 - Appaloosa development project sanctioned
• 2009 - Technip awarded a subsea contract
• 2011 - First oil produced

+++ Geology

+++ Links

1. Gulf Of Mexico Deepwater Natural Gas And Oil Qualified Fields
2. Manatee Offshore References
3. Eni sanctions two new projects in the Greater Longhorn Area
4. Technip awarded a subsea contract for the Appaloosa development in the Gulf of Mexico
5. Eni: first oil production from the Appaloosa field in the Gulf of Mexico