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* Buffalo crude is a light oil (53.3 degrees API) with a very low gas-oil ratio (120 scf/bbl). | * Buffalo crude is a light oil (53.3 degrees API) with a very low gas-oil ratio (120 scf/bbl). | ||
* The Buffalo oil field is being developed using two wells connected to an unmanned minimum Wellhead Platform with a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading facility (FPSO), the Buffalo Venture. The 103,000 DWT vessel is BHP-operated and leased from MODEC, Inc (of the Mitsui group). | * The Buffalo oil field is being developed using two wells connected to an unmanned minimum Wellhead Platform with a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading facility (FPSO), the Buffalo Venture. The 103,000 DWT vessel is BHP-operated and leased from MODEC, Inc (of the Mitsui group). | ||
| − | * The [[Buffalo Venture FPSO]] | + | * The [[Buffalo Venture FPSO]] was moved and renamed the [[Jasmine Venture MV7 FPSO]]. It has a storage capacity of around 740,000 barrels. |
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** Installation of the Buffalo platform | ** Installation of the Buffalo platform | ||
** Operational support services | ** Operational support services | ||
| + | ** Abandonment Strategy | ||
+++ History | +++ History | ||
Latest revision as of 09:47, 31 January 2024
Summary Information
- Operator: BHP Billiton
- Country: Australia
- Location: Timor Sea
- Production start: 1999
- Partners: Occidental
- Type: Oil
- Estimated Reserves: Original - proven and probable (P50) reserves of around 20 million barrels of oil
- Production Volume:
+++ Description
- The Buffalo oil field is located in permit WA-260-P, in the Timor Sea. It lies approximately 560 kilometres north west of Darwin, and is located in Australian waters in the same general area as the Laminaria/Corallina fields.
- Buffalo crude is a light oil (53.3 degrees API) with a very low gas-oil ratio (120 scf/bbl).
- The Buffalo oil field is being developed using two wells connected to an unmanned minimum Wellhead Platform with a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading facility (FPSO), the Buffalo Venture. The 103,000 DWT vessel is BHP-operated and leased from MODEC, Inc (of the Mitsui group).
- The Buffalo Venture FPSO was moved and renamed the Jasmine Venture MV7 FPSO. It has a storage capacity of around 740,000 barrels.
+++ Contractors
- **Modec:** Supply of FPSO
- **Icon Engineering:**
- Installation of the Buffalo platform
- Operational support services
- Abandonment Strategy
+++ History
- 1996 - Buffalo Oil Field discovered
- 1998 - The BHP Board approved the development of the Buffalo oil field
- 1999 - Government approvals
- 1999 - First oil
- 2004 - Buffalo Oil Field decommissioned
+++ Geology
+++ Links
