Landmark: First Gulf of Mexico Full Field Subsea Separation & Pumping System

Project Overview

• Contract Award: 2007
• Sales: Houston, Texas
• Fabrication: Houston, Texas
• Service Base: Houston, Texas
• Host Type: Spar
• Contract Type: EPC

Project Characteristics

• No. Trees: 17
• Water Depth: 2,880 m (9,600 ft)
• Tree Type: EVDT
• Tree Pressure: 10,000 psi
• Tree Bore Size: 5"x2"
• Hydrocarbon: Oil

Project Ownership

Great White

• BP, Chevron & Shell   33.3%

Silvertip

• Chevron        60%
• Shell              40%

Tobago

• Chevron         57.5%
• Shell               32.5%
• Nexan           10%

Scope of Work

• 4 Seventeen (17) 5”x2” 10,000 psi Enhanced Vertical Deepwater
• Subsea Trees (EVDT)
• 4 Two (2) 10-Slot Cluster Manifolds
• 4 Two (2) Suction Piles (foundation for manifolds)
• 4 Topside Control Systems
• 4 Subsea Controls and Subsea Distribution Equipment
• 4 Thirty (30) UWD-15 Subsea Wellheads
• 4 Valves and Hubs for fourteen (14) PLET’s
• 4 End Kits for twenty-nine (29) Well and Flowline Jumpers

Comments

This is FMC Technologies second full field development with Shell utilizing subsea oil and gas separation and boosting, following the award of the Shell BC-10 project in offshore Brazil. The Perdido project will have a SPAR-based processing hub moored in an estimated 2,400 m (7,874 ft) of water, making it the deepest production SPAR in the world. The Perdido project will utilize FMC’s globally managed product standards, supporting manufacturing and supply networks, and project management processes.