Introduction
Fluor and Octave entered a five-year contract on deployment to a large grassroots refinery in Kazakhstan. The Future Growth and Wellhead Pressure Management Project (FGP-WPMP) increased crude oil production at the Tengiz Oil Field by about 260,000 barrels per day. FGP-WPMP had an initial estimated price tag of $36.8 billion, including $27.1 billion for facilities, $3.5 billion for wells and $6.2 billion for contingency and escalation. The project raised TCO’s (TengizChevroil) total production to approximately 1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. WPMP maximized the value of existing TCO facilities by extending the production plateau and keeping existing plants producing at full capacity. FGP used state-of-the-art sour gas injection technology, successfully developed and proven during TCO’s prior expansion in 2008 that enhanced oil recovery.
Loop Material Readiness Scope
Combined with Fluor’s materials management system, MatMan, Loop Material Readiness enhanced the site’s materials management processes by increasing visibility into the supply chain through RFID, barcoding and rugged tablets. The Loop Material Readiness deployment began in May 2017 with 500,000 RFID tags.
Over the course of the five-year development, Loop Material Readiness and Fluor’s MatMan were used to track an estimated 2 million materials. RFID tags and barcodes were deployed at the DSME Shipyard in South Korea, the project’s fabrication and modularization site.
Project future
TCO - jointly owned by Chevron (50%), Exxon Mobil (25%), KazMunay Gas (20%) and LukAgro (5%) - is the operator of the Tengiz oil field. The project increased the well pressures and the production capacity of the existing Tengiz site.
