BP首席执行官Bernard Looney表示：“Argos的建成是一项了不起的成就，有助于实现我们的综合能源战略——投资当今的能源系统，同时投资能源转型。作为BP全球最数字化的设施，应用我们的最新技术，Argos将在未来几年加强我们在墨西哥湾的关键地位。”
Argos是BP公司Mad Dog 2期项目的核心，该项目延长了1998年发现的超级巨型油田的寿命。这是BP计划在2025年底前在全球启动的九个高利润重大项目之一。
Argos公司在新奥尔良以南约190英里的4500英尺水域运营，将提供250个永久性工作岗位。该平台高27层，甲板长宽相当于美式足球场，重量超过6万吨。
项目、生产和运营高级副总裁Ewan Drummond表示：“像Argos这样的项目并不是偶然发生的。它们需要多年的精心规划、卓越的执行和出色的团队合作。Argos是我们到本十年中期将墨西哥湾产量提高到每天约40万桶石油当量战略的关键。”
Argos是BP在墨西哥湾运营的最先进的数字平台，采用了BP专有的LoSal增强采油(EOR)和动态数字孪生技术(Dynamic Digital Twin)。Argos的注水能力超过每天14万桶低盐度水，有助于提高Mad Dog油田的石油采收率。
该平台还有一个Dynamic Digital Twin，这是一个正在申请BP专利的软件，将Argos的复杂数据与这些系统的3D数字模型联系起来，允许佩戴VR耳机的远程操作员实时访问数据，以提高决策、效率和安全性。
BP是运营商，拥有60.5%的工作权益。共同所有人包括Woodside Energy(23.9%)和加州联合石油公司(Union Oil Company of California)，后者是雪佛龙美国股份有限公司(Chevron U.S.A.Inc.)的子公司(15.6%)
bp has successfully started oil production at its Argos offshore platform, delivering more energy at a critical time and strengthening bp’s position as a leading producer in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
With a gross production capacity of up to 140,000 bopd, Argos is bp’s fifth platform in the Gulf of Mexico and the first new bp-operated production facility in the region since 2008. The semi-submersible platform will increase bp’s gross operated production capacity in the Gulf of Mexico by an estimated 20%. bp expects to safely and systematically ramp up production from Argos through 2023.
bp Chief Executive Bernard Looney said: “The start-up of Argos is a fantastic achievement that helps deliver our integrated energy strategy – investing in today’s energy system and, at the same time, investing in the energy transition. As bp’s most digital facility worldwide, applying our latest technologies, Argos will strengthen our key position in the Gulf of Mexico for years to come.
Argos is the centerpiece of bp’s Mad Dog Phase 2 project, which extends the life of the super-giant oil field discovered in 1998. It is one of nine high-margin major projects that bp plans start up by the end of 2025 globally.
Operating in 4,500 feet of water about 190 miles south of New Orleans, Argos will support 250 permanent jobs. Standing 27 stories tall, the platform has a deck the length and width of an American football field and weighs more than 60,000 tons.
Ewan Drummond, Senior Vice President of Projects, Production and Operations, said, “Projects like Argos don’t just happen. They take years of careful planning, execution excellence, and brilliant teamwork. Argos is key to our strategy of increasing our Gulf of Mexico production to around 400,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day by the middle of this decade.”
Argos is bp’s most digitally advanced platform operating in the Gulf of Mexico, featuring bp’s proprietary LoSal Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and Dynamic Digital Twin technologies. Argos has a waterflood injection capacity of more than 140,000 barrels of low-salinity water per day to help increase oil recovery from the Mad Dog field.
The platform also has a Dynamic Digital Twin, a bp patent-pending software that links complex data from Argos to 3D digital models of those systems, allowing remote operators wearing Virtual Reality headsets to access data in real time to improve decision-making, efficiency and safety.
bp is the operator with 60.5% working interest. Co-owners include Woodside Energy (23.9%) and Union Oil Company of California, an affiliate of Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (15.6%).
