Chevron Begins Water Injection To Boost Oil Recovery At Gulf Of Mexico Facilities
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 7. Chevron
Corporation has begun water injection operations at its Jack/St.
Malo and Tahiti facilities in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico,
aiming to enhance oil and natural gas recovery, Trend reports.
“These two projects maximize returns from our existing resource
base and support our goal of reaching 300,000 net barrels of oil
equivalent per day in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico by 2026,” said Bruce
Niemeyer, President of Chevron Americas Exploration & Production.
He also highlighted the recent startup of production at the
high-pressure Anchor field, further solidifying Chevron's
leadership in technology and project execution in the region.
At the Jack/St. Malo facility, Chevron successfully initiated
water injection at the St. Malo field, marking the company's first
waterflood project in the deepwater Wilcox trend. The project,
completed under budget, added water injection facilities, two
production wells, and two injection wells. It is expected to
increase the St. Malo field's total recovery by approximately 175
million barrels of oil equivalent.
The St. Malo field and the Jack/St. Malo facility are located
about 280 miles (450 km) south of New Orleans, in water depths of
around 7,000 feet (2,134 m). Since production began in 2014, the
two fields have collectively produced nearly 400 million barrels of
oil equivalent.
At the Tahiti facility, approximately 190 miles (306 km) south
of New Orleans in 4,100 feet (1,250 m) of water, Chevron started
injecting water into its first producer-to-injector conversion
wells in the deepwater Gulf. This project involved installing a new
water injection manifold and 20,000 feet of flexible water
injection flowline.
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