DEVELOPMENT PLAN ADVANCES OFF CHINA

Amoco Orient Petroleum Co. and Nanhai East Oil Corp., a subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corp., have let contract to Aker Omega Inc., Houston, to lead the next phase of Liuhua 111 oil field development in the South China Sea. Site is in 1,000 ft of water about 120 miles off China (see map, OGJ, Feb. 4, p. 20). During the next year, a team of Aker Omega, Amoco, and Nanhai East engineers will resolve key technical issues and prepare a final development plan for the heavy oil reservoir.

Aug. 19, 1991

Site is in 1,000 ft of water about 120 miles off China (see map, OGJ, Feb. 4, p. 20). During the next year, a team of Aker Omega, Amoco, and Nanhai East engineers will resolve key technical issues and prepare a final development plan for the heavy oil reservoir.

Preliminary plans envision use of electric submersible pumps to produce Liuhua 1-11 wells to a semisubmersible support vessel. Produced fluid then would be moved to a tanker based floating production, storage, and offloading system, where it would be processed and moved by shuttle tankers to refineries.