Generated by the worldenergydata field-development playbook (epic #567). Recommendation is heuristic (Concept Select / FEL-1 fidelity), not a sanctioned design.
King is a medium-size oil and condensate field (with the King West and King South satellites) in ~1,670 m of water, developed as a four-well subsea tieback to the existing Marlin TLP some 29 km away in Viosca Knoll 915 rather than as its own dry-tree platform (the TLP is the HOST, not King's concept). Because the field sits well below the host and ~18 miles out, declining reservoir pressure was overcome in 2007 by installing subsea multiphase boosting pumps at ~1,700 m water depth, then the world's deepest and longest-offset subsea boosting application. Tying wet-tree wells back to spare Marlin TLP capacity, with subsea pumps for late-life lift, was far cheaper than a new facility. Reference data listing King as a TLP operated by Plains reflects host type and a mid-life owner; the field itself is a subsea tieback now under Occidental. Notable: First commercial / world's deepest subsea multiphase boosting pump installation (2007), at ~1,700 m water depth.
| Concept | Score | Trees | Rationale / flags |
|---|---|---|---|
| subsea_tieback ★ | 0.847 | wet | host within 60 km with spare capacity |
| semisub_fps | 0.746 | wet | — |
| subsea_to_shore | 0.734 | wet | — |
| spar | 0.724 | dry | — |
| fpso | 0.688 | wet | — hurricane regime: FPSO needs a disconnectable turret |
★ = the concept actually selected for this field (where known).
Sources: SubseaIQ field catalog (~2014) + BSEE + curated vessel/ subsea catalogs. Schematics are deterministic, generated from the field concept.