Offshore staff
NEW ORLEANS –The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement has approved Energy Resource Technology’s move of pumping equipment onto Platform E, adjacent to Platform B and bridge connected.
BSEE approved the move as part of ERT’s proposed control steps which involve killing aleaking well on Platform B with drilling fluid.
The well is flowing mostly water at very low pressure and ERT believes that approximately 3.6 b/d of light condensate is being discharged, based upon the size of the sheen as reported by the BSEE and the U.S. Coast Guard.
According to ERT, the Ship Shoal 225 B-2 well is an older gas condensate well in a field developed in the 1970s that last produced 65 Mcf/d of gas, 9 b/d of condensate, and 1,150 b/d of water at a flowing pressure of 175 psi.
Ship Shoal block 225 Platform B is 74 mi offshore Louisiana, southwest of Port Fourchon, in 146 ft of water.
7/11/2013
