Woodside has brought its Persephone project online six months ahead of schedule.
This was announced by BP, one of six partners with a 16.67% interest in the project along with BHP, Chevron, Shell, Mitsubishi-Mitsui and Woodside. BP said production from five of seven major upstream projects targeted for production in 2017 were now online, with Juniper, offshore Trinidad, and the Woodside-operated Persephone the latest to begin production.
This followed the start-ups of the first phase of the West Nile Delta development in Egypt, the Trinidad Onshore Compression project and the Quad 204 redevelopment in the UK. The first phase of the Khazzan tight gas development in Oman and development of the Zohr gas field offshore Egypt were expected to commence before the end of the year.
The Persephone gas field, located in production license WA-1-L, about 135 km north west of Karratha in water depths of 126 meters, came on-stream on July 30.
The $1.2 billion Persephone project was approved in 2014 and consists of two wells tied into a subsea production manifold via a seven-kilometer subsea tie-back with production fluids transported to the existing North Rankin Complex (NRC), which is part of the greater North West Shelf project.
The field was discovered in 2006 via exploration well Persephone-1, located 8km northeast of the North Rankin Complex. At peak production the project is expected to produce 48mmscfd of gas.
The NRC will take gas from the Persephone and consists of the interconnected North Rankin A (NRA) and North Rankin B (NRB) platforms and associated subsea infrastructure, including two export trunklines which run between NRC and the onshore Karratha Gas Plant (KGP).
