Blacktip Gas Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: ENI
- Country: Australia
- Location: 110 km off the shore of Northern Australia in the Bonaparte Basin
- Production start: 2009
- Partners: Eni 100%
- Type: Gas
- Estimated Reserves: Original recoverable reserves of 150 million boe
- Production Volume:
+++ Description
- Infrastructure consists of:
- the WHP, normally unattended, of fixed steel jacket structure;
- an 18“ carbon steel, multi-phase subsea export pipeline bringing produced fluids to shore;
- a 1.3 billion cubic metre per year onshore gas plant, consisting of separation, gas dehydration, compression, condensate storage and produced water treatment facilities; and
- a condensate export system comprising of an export pipeline and a single point mooring (SPM) and offloading system.
- The Blacktip Gas Plant is situated approximately 240km from Darwin near Wadeye with the unmanned platform located approximately 110 km offshore in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf.
- The Blacktip Project, which is 100% owned and operated by Eni, delivers gas to the Northern Territory for power generation.
+++ Contractors
- **AusGroup:**
- Fabrication of platform jacket, piles and topside
- Providing skilled construction personnel for the execution of installation and pipelay work onboard the client’s derrick lay barge / vessel. This includes installing a wellhead platform jacket, piles and topside
- **Saipem:** EPIC (Sealines + Platform)
- **Clough AMEC:** Routine and campaign maintenance along with specialist consultancy services, multidiscipline engineering, procurement, and management of subcontractors and fabrication
- **Process Group:**
- 2 x Induced Gas Flotation Units
- 133 MMSCFD TEG Dehydration Package - TEG circulation rate 12 USGPM
- 2 x Induced Gas Flotation Units
+++ History
- 2006 - ENI launches project development
- 2008 - AusGroup awarded offshore installation contract
- 2009 - First gas production
+++ Geology
+++ Links
- Blacktip Offshore Environment Plan
- Process Group Oil And Gas Processing References
- Saipem Pipeline References
- Bluewater Calm Buoy Mooring References
- Eni starts development of Blacktip gas field offshore Australia
- Eni starts up production in the Blacktip gas field, offshore Australia
- AusGroup Awarded AUD$30 million Offshore Manning Contract
- Clough AMEC awarded Eni Blacktip contract, Australia
- Neptune Awarded Offshore Contract to Perform an IRM scope in the Blacktip Field south west of Darwin