By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Aug. 31 -- BP PLC is proceeding with its Andrew Area Development project in the central UK North Sea.
It will develop the Kinnoull oil reservoir with three subsea horizontal wells tied back to the Andrew oil field platform, about 230 miles northeast of Aberdeen, and extend development of a Lower Cretaceous gas-condensate reservoir below Andrew.
Kinnoull field lies in 103 m of water on UK Continental Shelf Block 16/23 about 25 km northeast of the steel-jacket Andrew platform. Its three wells will produce into a subsea manifold tied back to Andrew via a 28-km pipeline.
The manifold will have a fourth slot for possible future production, and BP says a fifth well might be drilled.
The operator let a contract to Wood Group for topside engineering and production management services for the project.
The Andrew drilling, production, and accommodation platform lies in 170 m of water on Blocks 16/27a and 16/28. Production from Andrew field began in 1996 and is now in decline. The platform also handles output from the Cyrus and Farragon subsea satellites.
BP will add facilities to the platform for processing of fluids from Kinnoull, an existing well and possible future wells drilled into the Lower Cretaceous reservoir beneath the platform, and from the future subsea development of Arundel field between Kinnoull and Andrew.
BP estimates Kinnoull holds 90 million stb of 46.2º gravity oil in a Paleocene turbidite reservoir encountered at about 2,495 m TVD subsea.
It expects total hydrocarbon liquids production from the three-well Kinnoull development to begin at 4,801 cu m/day (cmd) in 2012, to peak at 5,644 cmd the following year, and to cease by 2020. Kinnoull gas production will peak in 2013 at 767,000 cmd.
BP projects hydrocarbon liquids production from a two-well Lower Cretaceous development at Andrew to begin this year at 31 cmd, to peak at 183 cmd in 2014 and to continue producing through 2025. Lower Cretaceous gas production will peak in 2015 at 1.152 million cmd.
Kinnoull interests are BP, operator, 77%, Eni UK Ltd. 17%, and Petro Summit Investment UK Ltd. 6%.
BP holds a 63% interest in the Andrew Hub, including the Lower Cretaceous. Partners there are Eni SPA 16%, Nippon Oil Exploration Ltd. 11%, and Talisman Energy Inc. 10%.
