Black Sea Oil & Gas installs topsides for Ana drilling campaign
Black Sea Oil & Gas SA (BSOG) installed the Ana platform for the Midia Gas Development (MGD) project, 120 km offshore in 70 m of water in the Romanian Black Sea, in anticipation of a drilling campaign in November this year.
Ana, the first offshore platform built and installed in Romania in the past 30 years, is a 3,000 tons gas production platform consisting of a jacket that sits mainly underwater and a 3 decks topside above the water. Gas coming from the Ana and Doina reservoirs are collected and measured on the platform, then delivered to the onshore gas treatment plant through a 121-km subsea and 4.5 km onshore pipeline. The platform holds minimum equipment and will be unmanned.
MGD consists of 5 offshore production wells (1 subsea well at Doina field and 4 platform wells at Ana field) and a subsea gas production system over the Doina well which will be connected through an 18 km pipeline with a new unmanned production platform located over Ana field. A 126-km gas pipeline will link the Ana platform to shore and to a new onshore gas treatment plant in Corbu commune, Constanta county, with a capacity of 1 billion cu m/y, representing 10% of Romania’s consumption. Processed gas will be delivered into the NTS at the gas metering station to be found within the GTP.
Overall completion of MGD project is currently at 70%.
BSOG is owned by Carlyle International Energy Partners and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. It is operator of the concession with 70% interest. Partners are Petro Ventures Resources SRL (20%) and Gas Plus Dacia SRL (10%).
