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Summary Information
* Operator: Chevron
* Country: Angola
* Location: Offshore
* Production start: 2000
* Partners: Sonangol, Agip, Total and Petrogal
* Type: [[Kuito Crude]]
* Estimated Reserves:
* Production Volume:

+++ Description
* Offshore Cabinda, Angola, at a water depth of approximately 400 meters
* Kuito is the first deepwater oil field offshore Angola to start commercial production
* Underwater facilities are linked to a Floating Process Storage Offloading, the [[Kuito FPSO]] vessel through a piping and manifolds network.
* The FPSO vessel is connected to a loading buoy where export tankers will tie up to load the crude oil
* A subsea water injection system, installed in conjunction with the initial subsea production system and controlled aboard the FPSO, enhances production from the field
** Phase 1A included Kuito FPSO, 12 producing wells, an oil export system and one gas-injection well
** Phase 1B included 5 water-injection wells produced through a separate subsea injection manifold
** Phase 1C includes a separate subsea production manifold, flowlines and umbilicals, as well as seven producing and four water-injection wells.

+++ Contractors
* **SBM Offshore:** Provision of FPSO
* **Asea Brown Boveri and Coflexip Stena Offshore:** Sub-sea wellheads and piping
* Sedco-Forex: Drilling and completion

+++ History
* 1997 - Kuito Oil Field discovered
* 1998 - Chevron Awards Contracts For Development
* 1999 - Naming Of FPSO Kuito
* 2000 - First production
* 2001 - Phase 1C production started

+++ Geology
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+++ Links
# [http://killajoules.wikidot.com/archive:chevron-awards-contracts-for-development-of-kuito-fi Chevron Awards Contracts For Development Of Kuito Field]
# [http://killajoules.wikidot.com/archive:chevron-announces-naming-of-fpso-kuito Chevron Announces Naming Of FPSO Kuito]
# [http://killajoules.wikidot.com/archive:first-commercial-production-starts-in-the-kuito-deep First Commercial Production Starts in the Kuito Deepwater Oil Field on Block 14 Offshore Angola]
# [http://killajoules.wikidot.com/archive:chevron-starts-production-from-angola-s-first-deep-w Chevron Starts Production From Angola's First Deep-water Oil Field]
# [http://killajoules.wikidot.com/archive:chevrontexaco-partners-announce-first-oil-production ChevronTexaco, Partners Announce First Oil Production From The Next Phase Of Kuito Development]

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