BY September, ExxonMobil is tentatively hoping to meet its full capacity of producing 120,000 barrels of oil per day as final commission to its gas compressor system is ongoing.
For the last month, ExxonMobil has been producing between 80,000-90,000 barrels of oil per day while re-injecting 85 per cent of the produced gas. The beneath-target operations have been ongoing since mid-May when the company encountered issues with its gas compressor after it increased production.
At a media meeting on Wednesday, President of ExxonMobil Guyana, Alistair Routledge, said that the last part of the system that ExxonMobil is working to commission is the flash gas compressor. Flash gas compressors are used in oil handling facilities to compress gas that is “flashed” from a hydrocarbon liquid when the liquid flows from a higher pressure to a lower pressure separator.
“That’s the last sort of little bit of gas that we need to capture in getting to the injection system,” he said.