BP首席執(zhí)行官Bernard Looney表示：“Argos的建成是一項了不起的成就，有助于實現(xiàn)我們的綜合能源戰(zhàn)略——投資當今的能源系統(tǒng)，同時投資能源轉(zhuǎn)型。作為BP全球最數(shù)字化的設(shè)施，應(yīng)用我們的最新技術(shù)，Argos將在未來幾年加強我們在墨西哥灣的關(guān)鍵地位。”
Argos是BP公司Mad Dog 2期項目的核心，該項目延長了1998年發(fā)現(xiàn)的超級巨型油田的壽命。這是BP計劃在2025年底前在全球啟動的九個高利潤重大項目之一。
Argos公司在新奧爾良以南約190英里的4500英尺水域運營，將提供250個永久性工作崗位。該平臺高27層，甲板長寬相當于美式足球場，重量超過6萬噸。
項目、生產(chǎn)和運營高級副總裁Ewan Drummond表示：“像Argos這樣的項目并不是偶然發(fā)生的。它們需要多年的精心規(guī)劃、卓越的執(zhí)行和出色的團隊合作。Argos是我們到本十年中期將墨西哥灣產(chǎn)量提高到每天約40萬桶石油當量戰(zhàn)略的關(guān)鍵。”
Argos是BP在墨西哥灣運營的最先進的數(shù)字平臺，采用了BP專有的LoSal增強采油(EOR)和動態(tài)數(shù)字孿生技術(shù)(Dynamic Digital Twin)。Argos的注水能力超過每天14萬桶低鹽度水，有助于提高Mad Dog油田的石油采收率。
該平臺還有一個Dynamic Digital Twin，這是一個正在申請BP專利的軟件，將Argos的復(fù)雜數(shù)據(jù)與這些系統(tǒng)的3D數(shù)字模型聯(lián)系起來，允許佩戴VR耳機的遠程操作員實時訪問數(shù)據(jù)，以提高決策、效率和安全性。
BP是運營商，擁有60.5%的工作權(quán)益。共同所有人包括Woodside Energy(23.9%)和加州聯(lián)合石油公司(Union Oil Company of California)，后者是雪佛龍美國股份有限公司(Chevron U.S.A.Inc.)的子公司(15.6%)
bp has successfully started oil production at its Argos offshore platform, delivering more energy at a critical time and strengthening bp’s position as a leading producer in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
With a gross production capacity of up to 140,000 bopd, Argos is bp’s fifth platform in the Gulf of Mexico and the first new bp-operated production facility in the region since 2008. The semi-submersible platform will increase bp’s gross operated production capacity in the Gulf of Mexico by an estimated 20%. bp expects to safely and systematically ramp up production from Argos through 2023.
bp Chief Executive Bernard Looney said: “The start-up of Argos is a fantastic achievement that helps deliver our integrated energy strategy – investing in today’s energy system and, at the same time, investing in the energy transition. As bp’s most digital facility worldwide, applying our latest technologies, Argos will strengthen our key position in the Gulf of Mexico for years to come.
Argos is the centerpiece of bp’s Mad Dog Phase 2 project, which extends the life of the super-giant oil field discovered in 1998. It is one of nine high-margin major projects that bp plans start up by the end of 2025 globally.
Operating in 4,500 feet of water about 190 miles south of New Orleans, Argos will support 250 permanent jobs. Standing 27 stories tall, the platform has a deck the length and width of an American football field and weighs more than 60,000 tons.
Ewan Drummond, Senior Vice President of Projects, Production and Operations, said, “Projects like Argos don’t just happen. They take years of careful planning, execution excellence, and brilliant teamwork. Argos is key to our strategy of increasing our Gulf of Mexico production to around 400,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day by the middle of this decade.”
Argos is bp’s most digitally advanced platform operating in the Gulf of Mexico, featuring bp’s proprietary LoSal Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and Dynamic Digital Twin technologies. Argos has a waterflood injection capacity of more than 140,000 barrels of low-salinity water per day to help increase oil recovery from the Mad Dog field.
The platform also has a Dynamic Digital Twin, a bp patent-pending software that links complex data from Argos to 3D digital models of those systems, allowing remote operators wearing Virtual Reality headsets to access data in real time to improve decision-making, efficiency and safety.
bp is the operator with 60.5% working interest. Co-owners include Woodside Energy (23.9%) and Union Oil Company of California, an affiliate of Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (15.6%).
