UK consulting and engineering firm Wood has secured a contract from HD Hyundai Heavy Industries for detailed engineering of the topside facilities on Woodside Energy’s Trion floating production unit (FPU) in Mexican waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
When complete, Trion will have a production capacity of 100,000 barrels per day and connect to a 950,000-barrel capacity floating storage and offloading vessel.
First oil is set for 2028 and the development is targeting an estimated 479 mmboe of best estimate (2C) contingent resource of oil and gas. Apart from the FPU and FSO, Trion will include 18 wells – nine producers, seven water injectors, and two gas injectors – drilled in the initial phase. A total of 24 wells will be drilled over the life of the Trion project.
This greenfield development will be the first deepwater development in Mexico at a water depth of 2,500 meters. HD Hyundai Heavy Industries is the EPC provider for the FPU and Wood’s latest award follows the delivery of the Trion pre-FEED and FEED design.
Wood’s teams in Houston and Bogota will deliver the detailed topside design work for the FPU project over the next three years. In the last decade, Wood has designed more than 50% of topside facilities in the Gulf of Mexico today.
It is worth noting that HD Hyundai won the $1.2bn FPU construction deal in July 2023. The FPU will be built in the company’s shipyard in the southeastern port of Ulsan and is scheduled to be delivered to the client in April 2027. The full cost of the Trion project is expected to be around $7.2bn.
