Chevron begins water injection to boost oil recovery at Gulf of Mexico facilities

BAKU: Chevron Corporation has begun water injection operations at its Jack/St. Malo and Tahiti facilities in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico, aiming to enhance oil and natural gas recovery, Trend reports. 'These two projects maximize returns from our existing resource base and support our goal of reaching 300,000 net barrels of oil equivalent per day in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico by 2026,' said Bruce Niemeyer, President of Chevron Americas Exploration and Production. He also highlighted the recent startup of production at the high-pressure Anchor field, further solidifying Chevron's leadership in technology and project execution in the region. At the Jack/St. Malo facility, Chevron successfully initiated water injection at the St. Malo field, marking the company's first waterflood project in the deepwater Wilcox trend. The project, completed under budget, added water injection facilities, two production wells, and two injection wells. It is expected to increase the St. Malo field's total recovery by approx imately 175 million barrels of oil equivalent. The St. Malo field and the Jack/St. Malo facility are located about 280 miles (450 km) south of New Orleans, in water depths of around 7,000 feet (2,134 m). Since production began in 2014, the two fields have collectively produced nearly 400 million barrels of oil equivalent. At the Tahiti facility, approximately 190 miles (306 km) south of New Orleans in 4,100 feet (1,250 m) of water, Chevron started injecting water into its first producer-to-injector conversion wells in the deepwater Gulf. This project involved installing a new water injection manifold and 20,000 feet of flexible water injection flowline. Source: Trend News Agency

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