Offshore staff
HOUSTON – Chevron has contracted Wood to deliver engineering design for its Anchor deepwater development in the Gulf of Mexico.
The scope of the project included the preliminary front-end engineering and design (FEED), FEED, and now entails detailed design of Anchor, a wet tree development that will use a semisubmersible floating production unit (semi-FPU).
Anchor is the industry’s first deepwater high-pressure development to achieve a final investment decision.
The project will be led by the company’s engineering teams in Houston, with the contract awarded under an existing 10-year master services agreement with Chevron.
Under the scope of work, Wood is delivering a fully integrated design for the topsides and subsea system, incorporating risers, production flowlines, export pipelines, and flow assurance analysis.
The Anchor discovery is in Green Canyon block 807, located about 225 km (140 mi) offshore Louisiana in more than 1,500 m (4,921 ft) of water.
With an operating pressure of 20,000 psi, it is one of the first ultra-high-pressure projects in the world. The semi-FPU is expected to have a production capacity of 75,000 b/d of oil and 28 MMcf/d of gas, with the potential for future expansion.
02/27/2020
