Agbami Project: People and Partnerships Delivering a World Scale Field Development

摘要

The Agbami Project successfully commenced production in July 2008, ten years after the discovery of this world-class reservoir. Agbami represents one of Chevron Corporation's largest capital investments of the decade and the project achieved many outstanding results, overcoming various challenges along the way. This paper provides an overview of the project and discusses the key project objectives, strategies employed and some of the lessons learned, such as: 1. establishing a world-wide incident and injury free culture 2. building the largest FPSO in the world and an extensive subsea production system 3. application of intelligent well completions for reservoir management 4. setting new standards in Nigerian Content 5. achieving schedule objectives and production reliability in a challenging cost environment Agbami is a unitized deepwater oil field offshore Nigeria. Star Deep Water Petroleum Limited, an affiliate of Chevron Corporation, is the operator of the Agbami Unit. It took partnership with the concessionaires, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Famfa Oil Limited, and the other funding participants: Statoil Nigeria Limited, Petroleo Brasileiro Nigeria Limited, and Texaco Nigeria Outer Shelf Inc. (an affiliate of Chevron Corporation), as well as countless contractors and suppliers across the globe to achieve this remarkable outcome. Earning their support required a strong commitment to finding solutions, focus on interface management, and responsiveness to each stakeholder's interests.