By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Aug. 21 -- Total E&P USA has selected Weatherford International Ltd. to install 13 chrome alloy and vacuum insulated (VI) production tubing and accessories on its Matterhorn field development project in the Gulf of Mexico's Mississippi Canyon.
Matterhorn, on Block 243 in 2,816 ft of water, will be developed with the nine-slot, monocolumn Sea Star tension leg platform—often referred to as a mini-TLP—and initially will support seven dry-tree surface completions (see TLP illustration in OGJ, Sept. 23, 2002, p. 69).
Weatherford's Tubular Running Services group in Lafayette, La. will provide personnel and equipment, and will use its dual completion tools. The tubing strings will consist of 3.5-in. or 4.5-in. 13Cr tubing, 4.5-in. or 5.5-in. VI tubing, and 3.5-in. or 4.5-in x 1.9-in. mud line dual strings, with seven electric-hydraulic control lines run simultaneously and attached to the tubing strings with newly designed clamps and protectors.
Total expects to start the Matterhorn completion program this summer.