BP has brought online its expansion project at the Atlantis field in the Gulf of America ahead of schedule.
The supermajor announced 11 December it had delivered the Atlantis Drill Center 1 expansion project 2 months early. The project, sanctioned in the first quarter of 2024, is a two-well subsea tieback to the existing Atlantis platform. It will add gross peak production of around 15,000 BOEPD to a platform that has capacity for 200,000 BOPD.
The Atlantis field was discovered in 1998. The Atlantis platform, moored in 7,074-ft water depth, has been on production for nearly 2 decades.
The deepwater Atlantis Drill Center 1 expansion adds two wells to an existing drill center, a subsea hub connecting multiple wells. The subsea tieback, which connects new wells to existing offshore production facilities through pipelines, extends the footprint of the Atlantis field.
BP said it was able to bring the project online ahead of schedule by using existing subsea inventory, drilling and completing wells more efficiently, and streamlining offshore execution planning.
The supermajor aims to increase its US production to about 1 million BOEPD by 2030, of which 400,000 BOEPD is expected to come from the US offshore region. BP expects to bring online its Atlantis Major Facility Expansion, which will inject water to provide pressure support to targeted reservoirs, aiming to add peak annual average production of around 10,000 BOE/D in 2027 as part of that effort.
BP operates Atlantis with 56% interest on behalf of partner Woodside Energy with 44% interest.
In August, BP brought online its Argos Southwest Extension project, a three-well subsea tieback that is adding 20,000 BOEPD of gross peak annualized average oil production to the Argos platform in the deepwater Mad Dog field.