Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP) and BSOG prepare the gas exploitation from the Midia perimeter, Black Sea

By Emea Riga
The Romanian company Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP) announces the successful installation, over 120 km in the Black Sea waters, of the first fixed drilling rig in the Ana Perimeter, under concession from Black Sea Oil & Gas (BSOG). The moment is significant for the history of hydrocarbon exploitation on the Black Sea continental shelf as it marks more than three decades since, in May 1987, the first oil rig in the Black Sea became operational. Today, after 34 years, the Romanian company GSP, in partnership with the developer BSOG, is installing the first fixed platform that will extract gas from the continental shelf of the Black Sea, according to a press release.
“We are at a key moment for the Romanian industry, but also for the national energy sector. It took 34 years for Romania to find the courage, resources and allies to develop new exploitation projects in the continental shelf of the Black Sea. Today’s stage of the Midia Gas Development project sends at least two messages. First of all, the Romanian industry has, again, the capacity to build big projects. The gas exploitation projects from the Romanian Black Sea platform are sustainable “, declared the president of Grup Servicii Petroliere, Gabriel Comănescu.
The jacket (platform base) for the Ana fixed platform was manufactured at the GSP Shipyard in Agigea. The 1,300-ton plant is 101 m high, of which 69 m is below sea level. The jacket will support the superstructure of the platform (topside) which is already built in the GSP operational base in Agigea and will be transported and installed shortly.
Grup Servicii Petroliere is the main builder of the first development project for the extraction of new hydrocarbons from the Romanian Black Sea area. All stages, from design and design, manufacturing, transport to the actual installation of the platform are performed, in an integrated system, by GSP.
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, BSOG hopes to extract the first cubic meter of gas in 2021.
About one billion cubic apples of natural gas (about 10% of Romania’s current production, according to S&P Global Platts) will be pumped from the shallow perimeter XV – Midia, which consists of the Doina and Ana fields. The gases will be extracted through five wells, one submarine in the Doina field, and the others through the extraction platform in the Ana field.
BSOG is also the concessionaire and operator of the XIII Pelican perimeter.