Vito Oil Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: Shell
- Country: USA
- Location: Mississippi Canyon Blocks 940 & 984, Gulf of Mexico
- Production start: 2023
- Partners: Shell Offshore Inc. (63.11% operator) and Equinor (36.89%)
- Type: Oil & Gas
- Estimated Reserves:
- Production Volume: Expected 100,000 bpd at peak
Description
- Located over four blocks in the Mississippi Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico, the Vito development will consist of eight subsea wells with deep (18,000 feet) in-well gas lift.
- The development will utilise a semi-submersible Floating Production Unit (FPU)
- Vito is expected to reach peak production of approximately 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent (boe) per day
- The crude will be transported on the Mars Crude Oil Pipeline
Contractors
- Jacobs Engineering: Front-end engineering and design (FEED) package and detailed engineering for the Vito host platform topsides
- Sembcorp Marine: Construct and integrate the hull, topsides and living quarters of the Vito semi-submersible Floating Production Unit (FPU)
- Subsea 7:
- Project management, engineering, procurement, installation and pull-in of two 12” infield production flowlines with 10” steel catenary risers (SCRs), one gas lift flowline and SCR, and the umbilical system.
- Transportation and installation of 50 miles of 18-inch oil export pipelines, 17 miles of 10-inch Gas Export pipelines and three miles of associated Steel Catenary Risers and pipeline end terminations
- Oceaneering: electro-hydraulic steel tube control umbilical, and flying leads, totaling approximately nine kilometers (5.6 miles) in length
History
- 2009 - Vito Oil Field discovered
- 2010 - Appraisal wells drilled
- 2014 - Statoil acquired Anadarko's share
- 2016 - Jacobs awarded FEED contract
- 2018 - Final investment decision
- 2023 - First oil produced
Geology
- 600 net feet of high-quality oil pay in thick subsalt Miocene sands
Links
- Gulf Of Mexico Deepwater Natural Gas And Oil Qualified Fields
- Anadarko Announces Its Fourth Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Discovery in 2009
- Anadarko Provides Deepwater Update
- Jacobs Wins Contract from Shell for Gulf of Mexico Platform
- Sembcorp Marine Secures Contract for the Construction and Integration of Vito FPU’s Hull, Topsides and Living Quarters
- Subsea 7 awarded contract offshore Gulf of Mexico
- Oceaneering Announces Subsea 7 Umbilical Contract for Shell's Vito Development in the Gulf of Mexico
- Shell invests in the Vito development in the Gulf of Mexico
- Export pipelines award demonstrates Subsea 7’s strong track record for cost-effective execution in the US Gulf of Mexico.
- Shell starts production at Vito in US Gulf of Mexico