Cottonwood Oil and Gas Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: Petrobras
- Country: USA
- Location: Gulf of Mexico
- Production start: 2007
- Partners:
- Type: Oil & Gas
- Estimated Reserves:
- Production Volume:
+++ Description
- The Cottonwood field is located in Garden Banks quadrant block 244, in the American sector of the Gulf of Mexico, in a water depth of 670 meters. This is Petrobras’s first field to use submarine equipment and systems capable of operating under high pressure.
- The field’s two submarine completion wells are interconnected to a third-party fixed production platform, located 27 km away, via two production pipelines and a chemical product control and injection umbilical cable.
+++ Contractors
- **Oceaneering:** Manfacture and installation of a 17.5 mile, steel tube umbilical
- **McDermott:** Transportation and installation of Dual 6-inch flowlines (16.7 miles each) PLET, anodes
+++ History
- 2001 - Cottonwood Oil And Gas Field discovered
- 2007 - Production starts
+++ Geology
+++ Links
- [[[Gulf Of Mexico Deepwater Natural Gas And Oil Qualified Fields]]]
- [[[McDermott Subsea References]]]
- The Cottonwood Field starts producing in the US
- Oceaneering Delivers and Installs Petrobras’ Cottonwood Umbilical
