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AssigneeInstitut Francais du Petrole
InventorsJean-Francois Giannesini, Jean Falcimaigne
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A method of extending the working range of a main platform installation for oil deposits at sea involves: (1) positioning a temporary floating station at a location distance from the main platform installation and near to an oil deposit having small individual production capacity; (2) connecting the floating station with at least one well head of said oil deposit; (3) bringing up multi-component effluents from the at least one well head and pumping the effluents to the main platform installation; (4) when production of the effluents from said deposit ends, removing the floating station; and then (5) repositioning the floating station at at least one other oil deposit located at a distant location from said main platform installation to work the at least one other deposit. Also a facility for carrying out this method as described.
A method of extending the working range of a main platform installation for oil deposits at sea, which comprises:
A facility designed for working oil deposits under a layer of water (or offshore) and communicating with the bottom of the layer of water via producing wells, which comprises in combination, a main working platform equipped with production means designed to work offshore deposits, at least one floating structure, anchoring means to connect the floating structure to the sea bed so that the structure is in the vicinity of producing wells communicating with one of said deposits, first transfer means for allowing the transfer of multi-component effluents from at least one production well to the floating structure, pumping means allowing transfer of oil effluents without separation of their various components or phases on said structure, and second transfer means for transferring the effluents from the pumping means on the floating structure to the main platform.
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