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BHP Approves $1.3 Billion for Atlantis Phase 3 Project, Gulf of Mexico

Published: February 18, 2019 |

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BHP said that its board has sanctioned the company’s share of $696 million funding for the $1.3 billion Atlantis Phase 3 project in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

The decision from BHP comes about a month after its partner BP took a final investment decision for the Atlantis Phase 3 project to unlock an additional 400 million barrels of oil in the eastern part of the Atlantis oil field.

BHP has a stake of 44 percent in the Atlantis oil field while BP is the operator with a stake of 56 percent in the offshore U.S. field.

Located nearly 208km off the Louisiana coast, the Atlantis Phase 3 project comprises a subsea tie back of eight new production wells into the current Atlantis platform, located 241km south of New Orleans.

The eight wells will be drilled and completed to access infill resource opportunities with the project to leverage on already available infrastructure, production ullage and marketing agreements.

First production from the Atlantis Phase 3 project is aimed to be achieved in the 2020 and is expected to boost production from the Atlantis platform by about 38,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) gross at its peak.

The Atlantis oil field was discovered in 1998 by BP and has been in production since 2007.

“The Atlantis Phase 3 project provides a competitive opportunity to deliver on our strategy to grow resources in Tier 1 conventional deepwater assets. The project will further expand the Atlantis field and will provide cost-efficient, near term volumes,” said BHP Operations Petroleum President Steve Pastor.

In another development, BHP’s board also sanctioned $256 million funding for the drilling of an additional appraisal well, called 3DEL, at the Trion field in the Mexican territorial waters of Gulf of Mexico.

The funding will also enable BHP to carry out more studies in the offshore Mexican field to further delineate the scale and characterization of the asset.

BHP, which is the operator of the Trion field with a stake of 60 percent, expects to drill the 3DEL appraisal well in the second half of this year. The company is partnered in the offshore field by PEMEX, which holds the remaining stake of 40 percent.

Source: Compelo


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