BP selects Wood Group to construct, operate Colombia processing facility

March 3, 2003
BP Exploration Co. (Colombia) Ltd. has awarded a 5-year contract to a unit of UK-based John Wood Group PLC to expand, operate, and maintain an intermediate processing facility in Floreña field in Colombia's Casanare region about 100 miles northeast of Bogota.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Mar. 3 -- BP Exploration Co. (Colombia) Ltd. has awarded a 5-year contract to a unit of UK-based John Wood Group PLC to expand, operate, and maintain an intermediate processing facility in Floreña field in Colombia's Casanare region about 100 miles northeast of Bogota.

The new facility, which comprises two processing plants—one established and the other under construction—will generate its own power and has the capacity to process 21,000 b/d of oil and 82 MMscfd of natural gas.

Floreña field's oil is supplied to the Ecopetrol Araguaney pump station, but the produced, separated gas is reinjected into the reservoir to enhance oil production.