Kupe Gas Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: Origin
- Country: New Zealand
- Location: 30km off Ohawe Beach on the southern Taranaki coast
- Production start:
- Partners: Origin Energy, Genesis Energy, New Zealand Oil & Gas (NZOG) and Mitsui E&P Australia
- Type: Gas & Condensate
- Estimated Reserves:
- Initial 2P reserves have been revised to 83.8 million BOE, or 489 petajoules
- 323 PJ of sales gas,
- 1,368 kilotonnes of LPG
- 18.3 million barrels of light oil
- Production Volume:
+++ Description
- The Kupe Field, located in PML38146 in the offshore Taranaki Basin, New Zealand, is a gas-condensate filled reservoir in the Farewell Formation.
- Kupe is made up of an offshore platform with three production wells, a 30km raw gas pipeline running from the platform to the shore, an onshore production station near Hawera, and light crude storage and export facilities near Port Taranaki in New Plymouth.
+++ Contractors
- **WorleyParsons:** FEED
- **Technip:** design, engineering, procurement, installation, construction, pre-commissioning and commissioning of:
- An unmanned wellhead platform with capacity for up to 6 wells plus future satellites
- A 12” multiphase pipeline to shore and umbilical from the platform to shore
- A horizontal directionally drilled shore crossing (HDD)
- Onshore processing facilities to meet the planned production rate of 70 Tj/d
- An export pipeline for sales gas
- Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and condensate loading bays
- **Process Group:** 78.5 MMSCFD Molecular Sieve Dehydration Package
+++ History
- 1986 - The Kupe field was discovered by New Zealand Oil & Gas
- 2004 - Worley Awarded KUPE FEED
- 2006 - Final Investment Decision made
- 2010 - The Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Key, officially opened the Kupe Gas Project
- 2012 - Initial 2P reserves revised to 83.8 million BOE
+++ Geology
+++ Links
- Technip Oil And Gas Processing References
- Process Group Oil And Gas Processing References
- Kupe Gas Project, Origin Energy
- Origin Energy awards Worley FEED contract for Kupe
- Kupe Gas Project gets green light to proceed
- 1200 Kupe Field Initial 2P Reserves Increase
- Origin announces increase in Kupe reserves
- Technip awarded contract for the Kupe gas project in New Zealand
