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05/01/2001
Nick Terdre
Contributing Editor
Production on Phillips
Petroleum's Jade Field in
the UK North Sea will begin
in October. The project, the
first satellite development to
make use of the Judy
infrastructure, has presented
a series of challenges,
mainly connected to the
field's high-pressure/hightemperature (HP/HT)
reservoir.
Peak production of some 200,000 MMcf/d of gas and 15,000 b/d of condensate will be reached in 2005 and sustained for
about three years. However, there is exploration potential in the area, and there are spare well slots on the platform for
exploiting any commercial finds.
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The
licensees
- Phillips
(32.5%),
Agip
(7%), BG
(35%),
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(5.57%),
and
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(19.93%)
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little time
in
bringing
Jade on
stream.
The field
was
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Jade jacket: the twisted base is welded to the vertical tower section at Kvrner's Methil yard.
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discovered in March 1996 by exploration well 30/2c-3, which was suspended untested, and appraised the following year by
30/2c-4, also suspended after testing an aggregate 91 MMcf/d gas and 9,700 b/d of condensate. In anticipation of a
positive result, the well was drilled through a nine-slot space frame which will also be used for development drilling.
The project took longer than expected to come up for official sanction as the Jade partners differ from those on Judy. Even
though the Judy partners - Phillips, Agip, and BG - are all also Jade licensees, the involvement of two licenses meant that
it took 18 months to negotiate commercial arrangements for using the Judy facilities. Government go-ahead was given in
January 2000.
In late March 2001, the project was proceeding on schedule and within budget, despite a hitch in equipment supply
causing a two-week delay in jacket delivery.
Jade has the necessary qualifications for membership in the HP/HT club - the reservoir is located in the Joanne formation
of the Pre-Cretaceous at a depth of more than 14,000 ft. The bottomhole pressure exceeds 12,000 psi and temperature is
195 C. Experience in developing and producing from HP/HT reservoirs is limited in the UK. Four other fields preceded
Jade into development - Erskine, Elgin, Franklin, and Shearwater - but so far, only Erskine has production experience.
Elgin is now onstream.
Technical advances
That experience was directly available to the
project as Texaco, the Erskine operator, is also
part of the Jade group. One of the Erskine
offshore installation managers was seconded
to the design team for the front-end
engineering design phase. But Jade also
reflects technological advances made since
Erskine was developed. All the topside piping is
fully pressure-rated, which was not feasible
when Erskine was being designed. Jade
provides regular accommodation facilities
rather than the temporary refuge installed on
Erskine.
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Fabrication
The jacket was fabricated at Kvrner's Methil yard under a 9.1 million design, procure, and construct) contract. Although
Phillips originally specified a conventional square base, it accepted Kvrner's proposal to use a twisted base. In this
configuration, the base square is aligned at a 45-degree angle to the vertical tower section.
The design, which was used for the wellhead platforms in the Erskine, Shearwater, Elgin, and Franklin HP/HT
developments, provides a larger footprint, which reduces pile loads and allows easier access for the drilling rig. The jackup
can approach within three meters of the wellbay vertical face, without any interference from the pile on this side, which is
located below the mid-point of the platform side and away from the spud-cans on either side. The twisted-base design is a
patented Kvrner concept, though this is the first time the company itself has built such a structure.
The jacket is 99.6 meters high and measures 28 meters by 28 meters at the top, and 39.6 meters by 39.6 meters at the
base. It has a lift weight of 2,600 tons and will be held in place by just four piles, each of which is 63.5 meters long and 2.4
meters in diameter and weighs 250 tons. Tubulars, including piles, were fabricated by Sif in Holland and EEW in Germany.
The jacket was fabricated at Kvrner's Methil yard under a 9.1 million design, procure, and construct) contract. Although
Phillips originally specified a conventional square base, it accepted Kvrner's proposal to use a twisted base. In this
configuration, the base square is aligned at a 45-degree angle to the vertical tower section.
Despite the extra costs involved in implementing design changes, savings in other areas have helped keep the overall cost
to the budgeted level. The topsides, constructed by Heerema Hartle-pool, have a lift weight of 2,000 tons and a gross
operating weight of 4,700 tons.
Subsea valving
The wellbay has 12 slots, of which five are currently designated for Jade. On arriving at the topsides, the wellstream
passes through a choke downstream of each tree, a high-integrity pressure protection system (HIPPS) consisting of two
valves in series, past a multiphase meter, through an isolation valve, and thence to the manifold where the various streams
are brought together. The single stream then passes through a couple of manually operated isolation valves, through the
topsides ESV, and into the riser.
The section from the topsides ESV, through the riser, and along the initial 200 meters of pipeline to the subsea ESV has a
design pressure of 415 bar, while the main section of the pipeline is rated to 150 bar. This will ensure that in the event of
an excessive increase in pressure and failure of the HIPPS system, any rupture of the pipeline will take place at some
distance from the platform, thus minimizing the risk to human life and the topside facilities.
The solution, adopted by Phillips, was not a requirement set by the Health & Safety Executive, Shepherd said. A subsea
isolation valve is also installed at the Judy end of the pipeline.
Chemical injection, including methanol, will be used to inhibit wax and scale formation and corrosion of the pipe walls. The
main section of the pipeline uses carbon steel, but the riser and initial 200-meter section of the pipeline are internally clad
to provide protection against cooling of the fluids or failure of the inhibitors to mix evenly in the fluids. The topsides piping is
made from duplex and other high-performance steels.
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Special modules
The platform has no flare system. In the case
of over-pressure, gas will be cold vented. A
blast wall separates the wellhead area from the
utilities area, and the accommodation unit also
has a blast/fire wall. As there is regular
accommodation, both a fire-pump and lifeboat
have been installed.
Accommodation for 12 persons is provided,
although for emergency purposes, up to 20 can
sleep overnight if needed. Maintenance visits
are planned at 60-day intervals to replenish fuel
and other consumables. Well intervention is
also expected to be needed. For wireline
operations, the 36-ton pedestal crane will be
used. Brown & Root was awarded a five-year
maintenance services agreement.
Although the Jade platform will be controlled
from Judy, initial startup will be carried out from
the platform's own control room, where a dual
control system supplied by ABB is installed.
Should the platform need to be shut down, a
restart will also have to be carried out from on
board. However, if the platform is shut down
because of a shutdown of functions on Judy, it
will be possible to restart Jade operations from
Judy.
Jade has the necessary qualifications for membership in the HP/HT club the reservoir is located in the Joanne formation of the Pre-Cretaceous at a
One of Judy's two separator trains will be
depth of more than 14,000 ft. The bottomhole pressure exceeds 12,000 psi
dedicated to handling the Jade well fluids, and
and temperature is 195 C. Experience in developing and producing from
fiscal monitoring will be carried out on this
HP/HT reservoirs is limited in the UK.
platform. Judy will shut down in the second half
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of May for the tie-in work.
Safety performance on the project has been very good so far, according to Shepherd. At the Heerema Hartlepool yard,
where some 350,000-400,000 work-hours have been performed, there have been no lost-time accidents, and only two at
Methil, where a total of some 200,000 hours has been worked.
The platform will be installed in the second half of May by Saipem's S7000 crane-barge. Two docking piles have been
installed on one of the existing wells to guide the jacket into place. Heerema is responsible for offshore hookup.
The pipeline installation will take place from early April to early June. The main section of the line will be installed by EMC
using the Castoro 6 pipelay barge. Dummy spools will be laid where the expansion loops are to go.
The loops will then be installed by Halliburton Subsea - each will be in two parts, which will be flanged together at the top.
Of the pipeline cost of 32.5 million, EMC's contract is worth 20 million, 7 million over the sum originally agreed due to
the changed scope of work.
Drilling will be carried out by Santa Fe Drilling's Galaxy 1 jackup, a rig Phillips has used on various occasions in the Judy
area and which earlier this year was drilling an exploration well through the Judy platform. The rig's first task will be to
extend and recomplete the 30/2c-4 appraisal as a producer. Startup will be based on this well. A further three producers
will then be drilled in a program that is expected to last until August 2002. The discovery well, 30/2c-3, which missed the
crest of the reservoir, will be used for drill cuttings injection.
Each well is expected to have a productivity of up to 75 MMcf/d, but will normally be required to deliver 50-60 MMcf/d. If
one of the wells does not come in as planned, the drilling contract has an option for a fifth producer.
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