Champion Oil Field

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Summary Information

  • Operator: Shell
  • Country: Brunei
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  • Type: Oil / Gas
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+++ Description

  • The Champion field is a complex oil and gas field, situated 40 kilometres north-northwest of Bandar Seri Begawan, in water depths of 10 to 45 metres
  • Shell is working on a Waterflood Project to increase oil recovery

+++ Contractors

  • **HHI:** Champion-7 Jacket, Module, Bridge & Field Complex Pile
  • **Emtunga:** Champion 7 - Living Quarter Module and Helideck
  • **JDR:** Ten custom designed umbilicals totalling 13 kilometres
  • **McDermott:** Transport and install offshore structures for Champion Waterflood B2/3

+++ History

  • 1970 - Champion Oil Field discovered
  • 1983 - Construction of the centralised field facilities at Champion-7 was completed

+++ Geology

  • The Champion field is highly compartmentalised, characterised by large areas of fault / dip closures, from the seabed downwards. Combined with the multilayered nature of the stratigraphic succession, striking sub-parallel to most of the faults, the numerous hydrocarbon traps are relatively small and generally stacked. Block widths range from 100- 450 metres.
  • Reservoirs are heterogeneous, consisting of mainly fine grained shallow marine to coastal/delta plain sands (i.e., beach/spit, channel, crevasse splay, barrier, distributary and mouth bar deposits). Porosities average between 25 and 30% at shallow levels and 10 to 14% at 3,000 m. Two-thirds of the reservoirs have permeabilities between 100-5,000 mDarcy (0.1-5 m2)

+++ Links

  1. Champion and Nearby Fields
  2. Hyundai Heavy Industries Platform References
  3. Emtunga Offshore Platform References
  4. JDR Wins Umbilical Contract From Swiber Offshore For Brunei Shell’s Champion Field
  5. Technip awarded flexible pipe supply contract for Champion Field in Brunei
  6. McDermott Wins a Transportation and Installation Contract in Brunei