China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) on March 1 announced that all 26 wells at Liuhua 16-2, China's first self-supporting deepsea oil and gas field cluster, have been put into operation.
A bird's-eye view of the offshore engineering construction site of the Liuhua 16-2 oilfield cluster project [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
The daily output of the oilfield cluster is expected to reach 16,000 cubic meters, a new source of improvement in oil and gas production of CNOOC's oilfields in the eastern South China Sea.
A view of the HAI YANG SHI YOU 119, a floating production storage and offloading platform that is part of the project for oil and natural gas processing [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
Located in the Pearl River Mouth Basin in South China Sea, the Liuhua 16-2 oilfield cluster includes the Liuhua 16-2, Liuhua 20-2 and Liuhua 21-2 oilfields that have an average depth of 412 meters, among the deepest offshore oil and gas fields being developed in the country.
Workers inspect an electromechanical instrument before export of the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
(Executive editor: Niu Yilin)
