Offshore staff
(US, GoM) - Enterprise Products Partners LP has received initial flows of crude oil and natural gas into its Constitution oil and natural gas pipelines from Kerr -McGee's 100% - owned Constitution field and Kerr - McGee's and Noble Energy's 50% each-owned Ticonderoga field in the south Green Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico.
Current production into the pipelines from two Ticonderoga wells and one Constitution well is approximately 32,000 b/d of oil and 30MMcf/d of natural gas, with five additional wells expected to begin flow from Constitution in 2006.
Construction of the wholly owned pipelines was completed in late 2005, and Enterprise received initial production from the two fields in 1Q 2006.
The Constitution oil and natural gas pipelines are located in approximately 5,000 ft of water in the central GoM and are designed to provide gathering services for the Constitution and Ticonderoga fields, as well as other undeveloped blocks in the south Green Canyon area.
The 32-mi, 16-in. natural gas pipeline has the capacity to transport up to 200 MMcf/d by connecting the fields to Enterprise's existing Anaconda gathering system which gathers gas production from the Marco Polo area.
The crude oil export pipeline is a 70-mi, 16-in. line with a capacity of approximately 100,000 b/d that connects the fields with the Cameron Highway oil pipeline and Poseidon oil pipeline systems at Cameron Highway's Ship Shoal 332B junction platform.
Enterprise owns a 50% and 36% ownership interest in the Cameron Highway and Poseidon oil pipelines, respectively.
04/13/06
