RE: Perhaps of interest ...25 Apr 2021 12:02
Crypto, thanks for your (and others) support though ranger is no longer an irritant as I filtered him, he brings nothing positive to the board and his sole purpose seems to be to cause discord and cast doubt on anything ECHO do or say, I am sure there would be a name for his behaviour but you would need to ask a psychiatrist.
Ref the pipeline upgrade and replacement RNS dated 24th Feb, my final thoughts on this below.
What we know as per the RNS.
23km of pipeline serving wells in Chorillos, Campo Molino and Cerro Convento fields, the RNS states 10 individual upgrade projects have been identified, by that we can assume it’s the pipelines (flowlines) that run from ten wells in the fields above to the manifold, from the manifold the oil and gas would be transferred into a gathering pipeline for transportation and processing.
It may well be that the 10 pipelines (flowlines) only are being replaced, its quite possible the manifold might need remedial works only. As for the pipelines these are nothing special, they could even be flexible hose around 4.5" OD but I suspect it will be 4.5” tubing as there will be copious amounts of that stacked in pipe yards and that would be the cheapest option, what we do know is they have been shut in or choked back due to this pandemic, if so the insitu lines will be gummed up and if they are as “mature” as the fields they serve they are probably due replacement, given ECHO want to bring back onstream these shut in wells and add to production by means of the workovers it seems like money well spent.
These are onshore and will be a basic single pipe type of system.
A basic and brief description of well production pipeline / flowlines can be found at the below link first few paragraphs.
https://www.ipieca.org/resources/energy-efficiency-solutions/units-and-plants-practices/flowlines/