Класс Месторождения: Мелкое
Тип Месторождения: Нефтегазовое
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Стадия разработки: В консервации
Год открытия: 1996
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Площадь: 17.67 км²
Buffalo oil field
The Buffalo oil field lies in 27 metres of water beneath a high relief (approximately 300 metres) carbonate bank (Big Bank) which is approximately 12 kilometres long by 4 kilometres wide. The field development comprises a five-slot, unmanned wellhead platform connected to 2 production wells via sub-sea completions. The wellhead platform is remotely controlled from a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading facility (FPSO), the Buffalo Venture, which is permanently moored 2 kilometres away, in water depths or around 300 metres.
In 1996, Buffalo-1 was drilled 15 kilometres southeast of the Laminaria oil field, on the flank of the Laminaria High, in the Northern Bonaparte Basin. The well flowed oil and gas on DST from the Elang / Laminaria Formation. An appraisal well (Buffalo-2) was drilled in 1997 and cased and suspended as a future oil producer.
Oil production from Buffalo commenced in December 1999. In 2001, Nexen Petroleum Australia Pty Ltd became the operator of the field and embarked on a development drilling program using the jackup drilling rig, the ‘Ocean Bounty’. Currently, there are 4 producing wells on the Buffalo field. Production rates from the field are expected to peak at between 40,000 and 50,000 barrels/day over a three year field life.
Initial reserves at Buffalo field are estimated at 25 million barrels (Department of Resources Development, WA, 1998).
Data source: Cadman, S.J. and Temple, P.R., 2004. Bonaparte Basin, NT, WA, AC & JPDA, Australian Petroleum Accumulations Report 5, 2nd Edition, Geoscience Australia, Canberra.
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