U.S. offshore vitality trade tools maker Dril-Quip has been chosen to produce the subsea wellhead methods for the Woodside Power’s Trion improvement offshore Mexico.
The Trion challenge, a greenfield deepwater improvement, contains 24 wells throughout two phases.
Woodside’s choice to make use of Dril-Quip’s BigBore IIe Subsea Wellheads will leverage the system’s field-proven sealing expertise and a pair of MM lb. lockdown capability.
The BBIIe system eliminates lockdown sleeves throughout drilling and manufacturing, which may save rig time and scale back prices, in keeping with the corporate.
Dril-Quip’s Mexican Villahermosa facility will play an important function in supporting the Trion challenge.
“We’re happy to play a pivotal function on this important challenge with Woodside. This partnership underscores the success of our modern options, supporting the milestone of Mexico’s first deepwater oil manufacturing with the Trion challenge,” mentioned Don Underwood, Vice President – Subsea Merchandise at Dril-Quip.
Woodside made closing funding choice (FID) for Trion challenge in June 2023. Woodside is the operator with a 60% collaborating curiosity and PEMEX holds the remaining 40%.
Trion discipline can be developed by means of a floating manufacturing unit (FPU) with an oil manufacturing capability of 100,000 barrels per day.
The FPU, to be constructed by South Korea’s HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, can be linked to a floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel with a capability of 950,000 barrels of oil. Gate Power has been tasked with the commissioning of Trion FPU.
Trion is positioned in a water depth of two,500 meters, roughly 180 kilometers off the Mexican shoreline and 30 kilometers south of the Mexico/US maritime border.
First oil is focused for 2028.
