Enterprise to lay pipeline for Shenzi oil

Oct. 5, 2006
Enterprise Products Partners LP has signed definitive agreements with producers to build, own, and operate a pipeline connecting deepwater Shenzi oil and gas field in the Gulf of Mexico with existing systems.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Oct. 5 -- Enterprise Products Partners LP has signed definitive agreements with producers to build, own, and operate a pipeline connecting deepwater Shenzi oil and gas field in the Gulf of Mexico with existing systems.

The 83-mile, 20-in. pipeline will be able to carry as much as 230,000 b/d of crude. Shenzi field is in 4,300 ft of water, covering Green Canyon Blocks 609, 610, 653, and 654.

The new pipeline will connect a tension-leg platform under construction at the field with the Cameron Highway Oil Pipeline and Poseidon Oil Pipeline systems at Enterprise's Ship Shoal 332B junction platform.

The Shenzi TLP will have production capacities of 100,000 b/d of oil and 50 MMcfd of natural gas (OGJ Online, June 14, 2006). Production is to begin by the middle of 2009 from seven wells completed subsea and tied back to the platform. The field eventually will have as many as 15 wells.

Shenzi gas will move through a new lateral to the Cleopatra trunkline and on to Ship Shoal 332.

BHP Billiton Ltd. operates the field and holds a 44% interest. Repsol E&P USA Inc. and Hess Corp. hold 28% interests each.