Chevron Corporation has launched water injection
operations at its Jack/St. Malo and Tahiti facilities in the deepwater U.S.
Gulf of Mexico to enhance oil and natural gas recovery. These two projects aim to maximize returns from
existing resources and contribute to growing production to 300,000 net barrels
of oil equivalent per day by 2026, according to Bruce Niemeyer, president of
Chevron Americas Exploration & Production.
“These achievements follow the recent production startup at our
high-pressure Anchor field, reinforcing Chevron’s position as a leader in
technological delivery and project execution in the Gulf,” he said.
At the Jack/St. Malo
facility, Chevron has commenced its first waterflood project in the deepwater
Wilcox trend. Theproject includes new water injection facilities, two
production wells, and two injection wells, which are expected to add 175
million barrels of oil equivalent to the field’s gross recovery.
The Tahiti facility
has also begun water injection into its first deepwater producer-to-injector
conversion wells, integrating a new water injection manifold and 20,000 feet of
flowline. The Tahiti facility, which
started operations in 2009, has surpassed 500 million gross barrels of
oil-equivalent production.
Chevron operates the
St. Malo field with a 51% working interest, while the Tahiti facility is
operated with a 58% stake.