BP首席執(zhí)行官Bernard Looney表示：“Argos的建成是一項(xiàng)了不起的成就，有助于實(shí)現(xiàn)我們的綜合能源戰(zhàn)略——投資當(dāng)今的能源系統(tǒng)，同時(shí)投資能源轉(zhuǎn)型。作為BP全球最數(shù)字化的設(shè)施，應(yīng)用我們的最新技術(shù)，Argos將在未來(lái)幾年加強(qiáng)我們?cè)谀鞲鐬车年P(guān)鍵地位。”
Argos是BP公司Mad Dog 2期項(xiàng)目的核心，該項(xiàng)目延長(zhǎng)了1998年發(fā)現(xiàn)的超級(jí)巨型油田的壽命。這是BP計(jì)劃在2025年底前在全球啟動(dòng)的九個(gè)高利潤(rùn)重大項(xiàng)目之一。
Argos公司在新奧爾良以南約190英里的4500英尺水域運(yùn)營(yíng)，將提供250個(gè)永久性工作崗位。該平臺(tái)高27層，甲板長(zhǎng)寬相當(dāng)于美式足球場(chǎng)，重量超過6萬(wàn)噸。
項(xiàng)目、生產(chǎn)和運(yùn)營(yíng)高級(jí)副總裁Ewan Drummond表示：“像Argos這樣的項(xiàng)目并不是偶然發(fā)生的。它們需要多年的精心規(guī)劃、卓越的執(zhí)行和出色的團(tuán)隊(duì)合作。Argos是我們到本十年中期將墨西哥灣產(chǎn)量提高到每天約40萬(wàn)桶石油當(dāng)量戰(zhàn)略的關(guān)鍵。”
Argos是BP在墨西哥灣運(yùn)營(yíng)的最先進(jìn)的數(shù)字平臺(tái)，采用了BP專有的LoSal增強(qiáng)采油(EOR)和動(dòng)態(tài)數(shù)字孿生技術(shù)(Dynamic Digital Twin)。Argos的注水能力超過每天14萬(wàn)桶低鹽度水，有助于提高M(jìn)ad Dog油田的石油采收率。
該平臺(tái)還有一個(gè)Dynamic Digital Twin，這是一個(gè)正在申請(qǐng)BP專利的軟件，將Argos的復(fù)雜數(shù)據(jù)與這些系統(tǒng)的3D數(shù)字模型聯(lián)系起來(lái)，允許佩戴VR耳機(jī)的遠(yuǎn)程操作員實(shí)時(shí)訪問數(shù)據(jù)，以提高決策、效率和安全性。
BP是運(yùn)營(yíng)商，擁有60.5%的工作權(quán)益。共同所有人包括Woodside Energy(23.9%)和加州聯(lián)合石油公司(Union Oil Company of California)，后者是雪佛龍美國(guó)股份有限公司(Chevron U.S.A.Inc.)的子公司(15.6%)
bp has successfully started oil production at its Argos offshore platform, delivering more energy at a critical time and strengthening bp’s position as a leading producer in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
With a gross production capacity of up to 140,000 bopd, Argos is bp’s fifth platform in the Gulf of Mexico and the first new bp-operated production facility in the region since 2008. The semi-submersible platform will increase bp’s gross operated production capacity in the Gulf of Mexico by an estimated 20%. bp expects to safely and systematically ramp up production from Argos through 2023.
bp Chief Executive Bernard Looney said: “The start-up of Argos is a fantastic achievement that helps deliver our integrated energy strategy – investing in today’s energy system and, at the same time, investing in the energy transition. As bp’s most digital facility worldwide, applying our latest technologies, Argos will strengthen our key position in the Gulf of Mexico for years to come.
Argos is the centerpiece of bp’s Mad Dog Phase 2 project, which extends the life of the super-giant oil field discovered in 1998. It is one of nine high-margin major projects that bp plans start up by the end of 2025 globally.
Operating in 4,500 feet of water about 190 miles south of New Orleans, Argos will support 250 permanent jobs. Standing 27 stories tall, the platform has a deck the length and width of an American football field and weighs more than 60,000 tons.
Ewan Drummond, Senior Vice President of Projects, Production and Operations, said, “Projects like Argos don’t just happen. They take years of careful planning, execution excellence, and brilliant teamwork. Argos is key to our strategy of increasing our Gulf of Mexico production to around 400,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day by the middle of this decade.”
Argos is bp’s most digitally advanced platform operating in the Gulf of Mexico, featuring bp’s proprietary LoSal Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and Dynamic Digital Twin technologies. Argos has a waterflood injection capacity of more than 140,000 barrels of low-salinity water per day to help increase oil recovery from the Mad Dog field.
The platform also has a Dynamic Digital Twin, a bp patent-pending software that links complex data from Argos to 3D digital models of those systems, allowing remote operators wearing Virtual Reality headsets to access data in real time to improve decision-making, efficiency and safety.
bp is the operator with 60.5% working interest. Co-owners include Woodside Energy (23.9%) and Union Oil Company of California, an affiliate of Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (15.6%).
