Recently, Santos Ltd., Adelaide, made
some significant announcement regarding oil from its two-well infill project in
Van Gogh field in the Exmouth basin offshore Western Australia which has been
brought on stream. On September 2018, the infill project started which
comprises of drilling and completion of two subsea wells and connecting them to
the existing field infrastructure.
In the basin, Van Gogh field is one
of three subsea oil field developments which are tied in to the Ningaloo Vision
floating production, storage, and offloading vessel. In order to access bypass
oil which is not drained by the original field, two dual-lateral wells have
been designed. The technically challenging operation involved drilling horizontal
sections in the reservoirs up to 3,500 m in length and only 950 m subsea. There
will be boost to oil production from the field by the successful project .will
provide a boost to oil production from the field.
In the year 2003, Van Gogh was
discovered whereas production started in 2010. In 2000, nearby Coniston field
was discovered whereas in 1989 Novara field. They were respectively tied back to the FPSO
in 2015 and 2016.
Santos is having 52.5% interest and
operatorship of the Van Gogh-Coniston-Novara development. It was acquired last
year when purchased Quadrant Energy Ltd. of Perth, whereas IPEX of Japan has
the rest of 47.5%.
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