Woodside receives social impact approval for Trion project

Feb. 14, 2024
Woodside’s Trion oil and gas project received approval from the Mexican Ministry for Energy for its social impact assessment.

Woodside Energy Group Ltd.’s Trion oil and gas project received approval from the Mexican Ministry for Energy for its social impact assessment.

Trion is a greenfield development that would represent the first oil production from Mexico’s deepwater. It is in the Gulf of Mexico at a water depth of 2,500 m, about 180 km off the Mexican coastline.

Trion will have a production capacity of 100,000 b/d and connect to a 950,000 bbl capacity floating storage and offloading vessel (OGJ Online, Jan. 8, 2024). First oil is targeted for 2028.

The social impact assessment, submitted in May 2023, provides a comprehensive view of the project and outlines the ways in which Woodside will manage social impacts.

Woodside is operator at Trion (60%) with partner PEMEX Exploración y Producción (40%).

 

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Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).