Big Foot Oil and Gas Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: Chevron
- Country: USA
- Location: Walker Ridge Block 29, Gulf of Mexico
- Production start: 2018
- Partners: Chevron 60 %, Equinor 27.5% and Marubeni 12.5%
- Type: Oil & Gas
- Estimated Reserves: total recoverable resources in excess of 200 million boe
- Production Volume:
Description
- Big Foot field lies in the Walker Ridge Area and is estimated to contain total recoverable resources in excess of 200 million oil-equivalent barrels.
- The development utilises a dry tree Extended Tension Leg Platform with an on-board drilling rig
- Big Foot's topsides facilities include inlet oil and gas separation, gas compression, dehydration and export, oil treatment and export pumping, produced water treatment, water injection and all required utility systems.
- It has production capacity of 75,000 barrels of oil and 25 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.
Contractors
- KBR:
- Front-end engineering and design (FEED)
- Execute the detailed design for the Big Foot Topsides
- Wood Group: A three-year contract to commission the extended tension leg platform (E-TLP)
- Saipem: Big Foot Oil Export Lateral Pipeline installation
- Baker Hughes: A contract to supply electrical submersible pumping (ESP) systems and production packers for seven producing wells, plus mud line packers for three injection wells
- 2H Offshore: Detailed design and delivery management of the riser systems
History
- 2006 - Big Foot Oil And Gas Field discovered
- 2010 - Chevron makes final investment decision
- 2011 - KBR awarded topsides contract
- 2011 - Wood Group awarded commissioning contract
- 2015 - Damage to the platform Tendons postponed completion of the project
- 2018 - First oil produced
Geology
- Primary pay sands are Middle to Upper Miocene ranging from 19,000 to 24,000 feet (5,800 to 7,300 m) and lie below a salt canopy ranging from 8,000 to 15,000 feet (2,400 to 4,500 m) thick.
Links
- Gulf Of Mexico Discoveries In Water Depths Greater Than 5000
- Gulf Of Mexico Deepwater Natural Gas And Oil Qualified Fields
- Saipem Pipeline References
- Chevron Sanctions Big Foot Project in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico
- KBR to Execute Detailed Design of Chevron Big Foot Topsides
- 2H Offshore Awarded Big Foot Riser Systems Contract by Chevron
- Chevron Awards Baker Hughes Contract for Deepwater ESP Systems
- Wood Group to provide commissioning services for Chevron's Big Foot deepwater production facility
- Chevron to Move Deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico Platform to Sheltered Waters Following Damage to Installation Tendons
- Chevron announces first oil from big foot project in the deepwater gulf of mexico
