3.10. Offshore Oilfield Development and Production Facility Combinations
3.10.1. Combination Solutions
When developing offshore oilfields, given the different reservoir characteristics, geographical location, and marine environments, the production system always adopts different production facility combinations. The following are the usual combination solutions.
1. The first combination solution
WHP (wellhead platform) + FPSO (floating production storage and offloading) platform
This combination is made up of one or several wellhead platforms and floating tankers with the function of oil and gas processing, crude oil storage, and offloading. This production system is one where a simple single well measurement of the well fluid flowing from ...
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