Mutineer-Exeter

Location

WA-26-L permit (Mutineer) and WA-27-L permit (Exeter), Carnarvon Basin, offshore Western Australia, in 140–160 metres of water.

Participants

Santos – 33.3977% (operator)
Kufpec – 33.4023%
Nippon Oil – 25.00%
Woodside – 8.20%

Discovered

The Mutineer field was discovered in 1997 with the Pitcairn 1 exploration well and the Exeter field was discovered in 2002 with the Exeter 1 exploration well. The commerciality of the field was confirmed by the Norfolk 1 discovery in 2002.

First Production

Production commenced on 29 March 2005. Currently producing ~50,000 bbls/d (gross). 

Cost to Develop

Final forecast cost is approximately A$440 million, excluding the cost of the FPSO service provision contract (A$360 million).

Facility Details

The Mutineer-Exeter facilities have a design throughput of 100,000 barrels of oil per day plateau rate. The production facilities comprise:

• four (up to a maximum of 14) subsea production wells from two templates
• dual electrical submersible pumps and seabed multiphase pumps
• an FPSO performing hydrocarbon/water separation, crude stabilisation, power generation and water injection capability if required
• crude export via shuttle tankers
• capacity to connect additional satellite producers if NFE/appraisal is successful.