AL BOURY OIL FIELD

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

:WRITTEN BY
Abdul azeez Ibrahim
:UNDER SUPERVISION
MR.Abdul ALLAH Basher
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FIELD

LIBYA Discovery:1976
First Production:1988
Production Output: 60,000 barrels per day (~3.0×106 t/a)

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 INTRODUCTION
The Bouri Offshore Field is part of Block NC-41, which is located
120 kilometers (75 mi) north of the Libyan coast in the
Mediterranean Sea. It was first discovered in 1976 at a depth of
8,700 feet (2,700 m) and is estimated to contain 4.5 billion barrels
(720,000,000 m3) in proven recoverable crude oil reserves and
3.5 trillion cubic feet (99 km3) of associated natural gas with an
annual production potential of 6 billion m³. Bouri is considered the
.largest producing oilfield in the Mediterranean

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 Discovery

In 1974, the Italian oil company Eni S.p.A. signed a •

production sharing agreement (PSA) awarded by the state-owned National Oil
Corporation (NOC) of Libya for onshore and offshore exploration in areas near
Tripoli. This is where the Bouri field was discovered offshore at a depth of 8,700
feet (2,700 m) in the Gulf of Gabes by Eni's subsidiary company Agip Oil in
.1976. The Bouri field is jointly operated by Agip and NOC
The first phase of development, costing nearly $2 billion, was completed in 1990. •
This was immediately followed by commencement of a second development
phase which entailed the drilling of 55 new wells and construction of three
additional platforms, with production initiating from two oil platforms (DP4 and
.DP3) in August 1998

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 Production

In 1995, the Bouri field was producing nearly 150,000 bbl/d (24,000 m3/d),
followed by a sharp decline to 60,000 bbl/d (9,500 m3/d) in 1998. This
decline was largely a result of the country's inability to import
enhanced oil recovery (EOR) equipment under United Nations sanctions,
specifically Security Council Resolution 883 of November 11, 1993, which
banned Libya from importing refinery equipment. The situation has improved
since the UN Security Council officially lifted sanctions against Libya during
September 2003 and foreign investment is expected in the future. In 2006,
Eni reported that the Bouri field was producing about 55 kbboe per day

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 Field Facilities

Bouri has three subsea wells independently tied to the DP3 platform by
underwater safety valves (USV) mounted on a subsea-deployed skid located 150
meters from the DP3 jacket. The three wells were initially drilled in 1994–1995 and
temporarily abandoned until completion in 1998. The subsea trees are an integral
protection structure for deflection and protection, preventing the release of oil or
gas from wells into the environment and controlling formation fluids. The wells,
notable for Hydrogen sulfide, are controlled by chokes on subsea trees.
Hydrocarbons are produced by their respective underwater safety valves to the
DP3 platform through flexible 4" nominal-diameter flowlines. Topside controls were
installed by FMC Technology on the DP3 platform and use a multiplex electro-
hydraulic control system with independent production umbilical at each well.

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 Developments

In 2004, Agip Oil commissioned Saipem S.p.A. for additional development projects
related to the Bouri Field. The project carried out through a joint venture between Saipem
and Korea's Hyundai Corporation, which fabricated process and utility modules. Apart
from drilling modules, designed and with fabrication follow up by Saipem, the contract
covered installation of two drilling and production platforms in 160 meter water depths.
Overall, twenty-seven modules, ranging in weight from 500 to 1700 tons, and totalling
26,000 tons, were installed. Work conducted on the Bouri Field DP-4 Rig, included; a
Removal project: decommissioning and removal of one of the two drilling rigs and
associated modules from the DP-4 platform. These operations were carried out utilising
[3]
.the Saipem 7000, which is the world's second largest crane vessel

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 Export & Development

The Western Libyan Gas Project is a 50-50 joint venture between Eni and
NOC which came online in October 2004. This project transports natural gas
from Bouri and other Eni fields through the $6.6 billion, 32 inches (0.81 m),
520 km Greenstream underwater pipeline. Currently, 280 billion cubic feet
(7.9×109 m3) per year of natural gas is exported from a processing facility at
Melitah, on the Libyan coast, via Greenstream to southeastern Sicily. From
Sicily, the natural gas flows to the Italian mainland, and then onwards to the
rest of Europe. Throughput on the Greenstream line reportedly can be
boosted to 385×109 cu ft (1.09×1010 m3) per year.

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 Location OF Feild
The Bouri field is situated in the Djeffara-Pelagian Basin Province (also known as the
"Pelagian Basin"), and produces from the Bou Dabbous-Tertiary TPS. The Province is
primarily an offshore region of the Mediterranean, located off eastern Tunisia and northern
Libya (northwest of the Sirte Basin), and extending slightly into Italian and Maltese
territorial waters. The Pelagian Province contains over 2.3 billion barrels
(370,000,000 m3) of known (estimated total recoverable, including cumulative production
plus remaining reserves) petroleum liquids; consisting of about 1 billion barrels
(160,000,000 m3) of recoverable oil reserves and approximately 17 trillion cubic feet
(480 km3) of known natural gas. It is speculated that Tertiary carbonates might contain
indigenous hydrocarbon sources, particularly in Eocene rocks (Gir Formation), that could
have contributed to the large reserves in Djefarra-Pelagian. In addition to Bouris, other
major fields located in the province are the Ashtart and Sidi el Itayem fields

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 Block NC-41 Facilities

Block NC-41 contains three known petroleum

reservoirs; one oil reservoir and two gas reservoirs.
NC-41 has two production platforms: DP4 and DP3.
The latter is tied back to the DP4 platform located
6.5 km northeast. The DP4 platform is permanently
moored at a single point to a
Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) tanker with a
storage capacity of approximately 1.5 million barrels
(240,000 m3).

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