超级巨头 BP 已与海上钻井平台提供商 Transocean 签订合同，使用钻井船Deepwater Invictus在美国墨西哥湾 (GOM) 的钻井项目中作业。这份为期 1,095 天的合同预计将于 2025 年第一季度开始，预计将为 Transocean 贡献约 5.31 亿美元的积压订单，不包括额外服务和动员费。这份为期 3 年的钻井平台使用协议将使 BP 每天花费约 485,000 美元。

此次交易正值 BP 计划在墨西哥湾古近纪油气区开展钻探项目之际，该钻头在过去 20 年左右的时间里在该油气区取得了成功。BP 计划在该油气区开展开发和勘探探测。该钻机将加入 BP 目前在美国墨西哥湾签订合同的另外三艘钻井船。

本周早些时候，该运营商对位于 Keathley Canyon Block 292 的价值 50 亿美元的 Kaskida 项目做出了最终投资决定，并表示位于 Keathley Canyon Block 102 附近的 Tiber 发现可能会在明年此时获得绿灯。

BP 正在采用“设计一、建设二”的理念来处理 Kaskida 和 Tiber 项目。预计每个浮式生产主机的日产量约为 80,000 至 100,000 桶油当量。运营商已与新加坡 Seatrium 签署了建造 Kaskida FPU 的意向书。Kaskida 开发项目的初始阶段目标是获得约 2.75 亿桶油当量的可采储量。Kaskida 的第一批石油将于 2029 年产出。

规划阶段的另一个开发项目是 Gila，它于 2013 年 12 月被发现，这是运营商继 Kaskida 和 Tiber 之后在古近纪的第三个发现。

Gila 发现区位于 Keathley Canyon 区块 93，距离新奥尔良西南约 300 英里，水深 4,900 英尺。该发现井在通往总深度 29,221 英尺的途中遇到了多个古近纪储层砂。

仅仅一年之后，BP 就在基思利峡谷 10 号区块的瓜达卢佩发现了石油，并在古近纪 Wilcox Sands 中发现了大量油层。

该井位于路易斯安那州海岸约 180 英里处，水深 3,992 英尺，总深度为 30,173 英尺。

Supermajor BP has contracted with offshore rig provider Transocean for use of drillship Deepwater Invictus on a drilling program in the US Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The 1,095-day contract is expected to begin in the first quarter of 2025 and is estimated to contribute approximately $531 million in backlog to Transocean, excluding additional services and a mobilization fee. The 3-year pact for use of the rig will cost BP about $485,000 per day.

The deal comes as BP plans a drilling program in the GOM’s Paleogene play where it has had success with the drill bit over the past 2 decades or so. Both development and exploration probes are on the menu moving forward in the play. The rig will join three other drillships the operator currently has under contract in the US GOM.

Earlier this week, the operator took final investment decision on its $5-billion Kaskida project in Keathley Canyon Block 292 and has suggested that the nearby Tiber find in Keathley Canyon Block 102 would likely get the green light around this time next year.

BP is approaching the Kaskida and Tiber projects with a design-one, build-two philosophy. Each floating production host is expected to produce around 80,000 to 100,000 BOE/D. The operator has a letter of intent in place with Singapore’s Seatrium for construction of the Kaskida FPU. The initial phase of the Kaskida development is targeting about 275 million BOE in recoverable reserves. First oil at Kaskida is slated for 2029.

Another development in the planning phase is Gila, which was discovered in December 2013—the operator’s third find in the Paleogene after Kaskida and Tiber.

The Gila discovery is in Keathley Canyon Block 93, about 300 miles southwest of New Orleans, in 4,900 ft of water. The discovery well encountered multiple Paleogene-aged reservoir sands en route to a total depth of 29,221 ft.

Just under a year later, BP discovered oil at Guadalupe in Keathley Canyon Block 10, encountering significant oil pay in Paleogene age Wilcox Sands.

Located approximately 180 miles off the Louisiana coast in 3,992 ft of water, the well was drilled to a total depth of 30,173 ft.