Woollybutt Oil Field

Summary Information

• Operator: ENI
• Country: Australia
• Location: 80 km from the town of Onslow
• Production start: 2003
• Partners: ENI, Exxon, Tap Oil
• Type: Oil
• Estimated Reserves:
• Production Volume:

Description

• The Woollybutt Field is located in permit WA-25-L off the coast of Western Australia, approximately 40km west of Barrow Island
• During production, the field development consisted of four subsea wells (WB1, WB2A, SB1 and WB4) that produced through subsea wellheads and flexible flowlines to a double-hulled FPSO vessel, Four Vanguard FPSO
• The field has ceased production

Contractors

• Keppel: FPSO construction
• Premuda: carried out the detailed design, procurement, fabrication, tanker conversion and FPSO installation for the development
• NKT Flexibles:** Risers
• ICON Engineering:
  • Project Management and Design Engineering for the Scalybutt Tie back Project
  • Operating and Abandonment Liability Assessment

History

• 1997 - Woollybutt Oil Field discovered
• 2003 - FSPO delivered
• 2003 - Woollybutt Oil Field production started
• 2008 - Woollybutt South Development completed
• 2012 - Production on the field ceased

Links

1. Woollybutt, Decommissioning
2. NKT Flexibles, Woollybutt, Australia
3. Premuda, Woollybutt Project Overview
4. Icon Engineering Platform References
5. Keppel Shipyard reaffirmed as a preferred yard by Vanguard with the completion of their first FPSO
6. Eni: started production from Woollybutt field, Australia
7. Completion of Woollybutt South Development and Woollybutt Production Start Up