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Second and third stages the floating production, storage and off-load-
ExxonMobil is developing Stabroek via a con- ing (FPSO) vessel that will be used to develop
sortium that also includes China National the site. The cost of the Liza-2 project is slated
Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) and the US inde- to reach $6bn, with more than a quarter of the
pendent Hess. The partners aim to bring Liza-2 total, or $1.6bn, going to capitalise the lease on
on stream in 2022, and their third stage of pro- the FPSO. ™
duction will focus on Payara, which is due to
come online in 2024.
According to Guyana’s Maritime Adminis-
tration Department (MARAD), a pipe-laying
vessel owned by Saipem (Italy) and contracted
by ExxonMobil has already begun installation
work at Liza-2 ahead of development drilling
at the site. Pipe-laying operations are due to be
finished by the end of June this year, the depart-
ment said.
The US company and its partners are
slated to drill about 15 production wells, nine
water-injection wells and six gas-injection wells
at Liza-2. The wells will be clustered around six
hubs, all of which will send oil to the Liza Unity, ExxonMobil has discovered 18 oilfields at Stabroek (Image: Stabroek News)

SURINAME
Total reports fourth oil find at Block 58

FRANCE’S Total and its US-based partner had won a contract from Total for the use of the
Apache revealed last week that they had struck Maersk Developer and Maersk Valiant drillships
oil for the fourth time at Block 58 offshore at Block 58.
Suriname. Under the $100mn deal, the French major
In a statement, Total said it had made the will use the vessels for a combined period of 500
discovery at Keskesi-1, a well sunk by the Noble days to sink additional wells at the block. The
Sam Croft drillship in 725-metre-deep water in Maersk Developer is due to begin work before
the eastern section of Block 58. To date, it said, the end of January, while the Maersk Valiant will
the well has encountered “63 metres net pay follow suit in March, the Danish company said
of hydrocarbons, comprised of 58 metres net in a statement.
black oil, volatile oil, and gas pay in good-qual- These two ships will replace the Noble Sam
ity Campano-Maastrichtian reservoirs, along Croft, which Total has now released.
with 5 metres of net volatile oil pay in Santonian
reservoirs.”
The French company did not comment on
the size of the discovery, but it went on to say
that it had not finished work at Keskesi-1. The
partners are continuing to drill, with the intent
of assessing deeper targets in Necomian strata,
it explained.
Kevin McLachlan, Total’s senior vice-pres-
ident for exploration, noted that Total had
assumed the operatorship of Block 58 on Jan-
uary 58 and said the discovery represented a
good start. “We are delighted to announce this
new discovery, which confirms this first explo-
ration campaign as a full success and adds to the
proven resource base,” he commented. “We are
also excited, as new operator of the block, to start
the appraisal operations designed to character-
ise the 2020 discoveries, while in parallel start
a second exploration campaign on this prolific
block in 2021.”
McLachlan was speaking shortly before
Denmark’s Maersk Drilling announced that it Keskesi-1 is the fourth discovery made at Block 58 (Image: Total)

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