Woodside contractor HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (HHI) has signed GATE Energy for commissioning of the 100,000 b/d Trion floating production unit (FPU) offshore Mexico.
GATE's scope includes pre-commissioning and commissioning planning and execution at HHI's fabrication yard in Ulsan, South Korea.
Woodside took final investment decision (FID) on Trion earlier this year and subsequently received approval for the project from Mexico’s Comision Nacional de Hidrocarburos (OGJ Online, Aug. 30, 2023; June 20, 2023). Trion is in the Perdido fold belt, Gulf of Mexico, 180 km off the Mexican coastline and 30 km south of the Mexico-US maritime border in water depths up to 8,200 ft.
Trion will be developed with 18 wells (nine producers, seven water injectors, and two gas injectors) drilled in the initial phase and a total of 24 wells drilled over the life of the project. The FPU will connect to a floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel with a capacity of 950,000 bbl of oil.
Its development is targeting 479 MMboe of best estimate (2C) contingent oil and gas and being undertaken with Pemex Exploración y Producción (40%).
First oil is targeted for 2028.
