Type:
Oil & Gas
Design:
Spar
Installed:
2003
Facility:
Production
Water Depth:
678
meters
Country:
USA - New Orleans District
Block:
MISSISSIPPI CANYON 60. Block 582
Intro
Medusa is a deepwater subsea tie-back development in the Gulf of Mexico, producing oil and gas through a host facility. First production began in the early 2000s. The development consists of subsea wells tied back to a nearby platform, with no standalone surface production facility.
Field
The Medusa Field is located in the Mississippi Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico. Reservoirs are deepwater Miocene sandstones. The field is relatively modest in scale and was developed as a subsea tie-back to reduce capital costs while leveraging existing processing infrastructure in the region.
Facilities
The Medusa development comprises multiple subsea wells equipped with subsea trees and connected via flowlines to a host platform. A subsea manifold system gathers production and routes it through a single export flowline. The host facility performs separation, oil stabilization, gas compression, and water treatment. Oil and gas are exported via the host’s pipeline systems into regional Gulf of Mexico infrastructure. Subsea control is achieved through electro-hydraulic umbilicals, enabling remote operation and monitoring. The system may include water injection wells for reservoir support. The design emphasizes simplicity and reliability, with minimal surface infrastructure and reliance on existing processing and export capacity.
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