ACT GROUP STARTS UP SECOND FIELD OFF CHINA

ACT Operators Group and a unit of China National Offshore Oil Co. (Cnooc) have started production from their second oil field, Huizhou 26-1, in the South China Sea off China. Site is in the Pearl River Mouth basin, 110 miles southeast of Hong Kong (see map, OGJ, Jan. 21, p. 18). Huizhou 26-1 production, which began Nov. 12, is expected to peak at about 40,000 b/d in 1992. The combine also expects oil flow from its nearby Huizhou 21-1 field, which went on stream in September 1990, to peak in

Nov. 25, 1991

ACT Operators Group and a unit of China National Offshore Oil Co. (Cnooc) have started production from their second oil field, Huizhou 26-1, in the South China Sea off China.

Site is in the Pearl River Mouth basin, 110 miles southeast of Hong Kong (see map, OGJ, Jan. 21, p. 18).

Huizhou 26-1 production, which began Nov. 12, is expected to peak at about 40,000 b/d in 1992. The combine also expects oil flow from its nearby Huizhou 21-1 field, which went on stream in September 1990, to peak in 1992.

That will yield a combined rate of about 60,000 b/d.

Oil production from Huizhou 26-1's eight leg platform flows through a 16 mile, 12 in. pipeline to Huizhou 21-1's 250,000 dwt floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) tanker for transfer to shuttle tankers destined for shore.

The FPSO can be disconnected through a buoyant turret mooring system if a typhoon approaches.

Agip (Overseas) Ltd., Chevron Overseas Petroleum Ltd., and Texaco Petroleum Mij. (Nederland) BV are equal partners in the ACT group, which holds a 49% interest in the Huizhou fields. Cnooc unit Nanhai East Oil Corp. owns the remining interest.