BP 近 20,000 吨的上部设施已离开其位于巴库的制造厂，将于本周末在里海近海约 62 英里处安装完毕。

耗资 60 亿美元的阿塞拜疆中东 (ACE) 项目于 2019 年开始建设，BP 计划明年初从该设施产出第一批石油。这家总部位于伦敦的超级巨头表示，ACE 设施的设计产量高达 10 万桶/日，预计在该项目的生命周期内，该设施的产量将超过 3 亿桶。

在接下来的几天里，ACE 平台将从驳船转移到平台导管架上，平台导管架本身重达 16,000 吨，该平台于 3 月份安装在近 450 英尺的深度。英国石油公司表示，还需要一些平台导管架。在从平台的集成钻机钻出第一口井之前，需要几个月的时间才能完成连接和调试操作。

该装置有 48 个用于生产井的钻槽。此外，它将连接到现有的输水管道以支持注入井。

英国石油公司将其最新的大型项目描述为“创新工程的惊人壮举”，并表示该设施将受益于一系列过程自动化和数字技术。这是英国石油公司里海项目的首个项目，该设施将通过巴库附近桑加恰尔石油和天然气码头的陆上控制室进行远程操作。

ACE 平台将位于中阿塞拜疆和东阿塞拜疆平台的中间位置。今年上半年，这些平台的总产量为 121,000 B/D。

与其姊妹设施一样，新的 ACE 平台将瞄准里海的 Azeri-Chirag Deepwater Gunashli (ACG) 油田综合体，该油田于 20 世纪 80 年代在阿塞拜疆近海发现。

BP 在 ACG 生产协议中持有 30.37% 的运营商权益。该协议最初于 1994 年签署，于 2017 年延长至 2049 年。合作伙伴包括 Socar/AzACG (25%)、雪佛龙 (9.57%)、Inpex (9.31%)、Equinor (7.27%)、埃克森美孚 (6.79%) 、TPAO (5.73%)、伊藤忠商事株式会社 (3.65%) 和 ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL) (2.31%)。

BP’s nearly 20,000-ton topsides unit has departed its fabrication yard in Baku and is to be installed by week’s end about 62 miles offshore in the Caspian Sea.

Construction of the $6-billion Azeri Central East (ACE) project began in 2019, and BP is planning on achieving first oil from the facility early next year. The London-based supermajor said the ACE facility was designed to produce up to 100,000 B/D and that it expects more than 300 million bbl to flow out of the unit over the project’s lifetime.

Over the next few days, the ACE platform will be transferred from a barge to a platform jacket—itself weighing in at 16,000 tons—that was installed in March at a depth of almost 450 ft. BP said it will require a few more months to complete hookup and commissioning operations before the first well is drilled from the platform’s integrated drilling rig.

The unit features 48 drilling slots for production wells. Additionally, it will be connected to an existing water pipeline to support injection wells.

BP described its latest megaproject as “an amazing feat of innovative engineering” and said that the facility will benefit from a host of process automation and digital technologies. And in what is a first for BP's Caspian projects, the facility will be remotely operated from an onshore control room at the Sangachal oil and gas terminal near Baku.

The ACE platform will be located about halfway between the Central Azeri and East Azeri platforms. These platforms, in the first half of this year, boasted a combined production of 121,000 B/D.

Like its sister facilities, the new ACE platform will target the Caspian’s Azeri-Chirag Deepwater Gunashli (ACG) oilfield complex which was discovered offshore Azerbaijan in the 1980s.

BP holds a 30.37% operator interest share in the ACG production agreement. This agreement, originally signed in 1994, was extended in 2017 to last until 2049. Partners include Socar/AzACG (25%), Chevron (9.57%), Inpex (9.31%), Equinor (7.27%), ExxonMobil (6.79%), TPAO (5.73%), Itochu (3.65%), and ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL) (2.31%).