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This is especially true since the country remains destination that requires technology [and] that
at risk of further flooding of the type that has requires knowledge, and everywhere, even
helped bring crude output down to about America, does not have 100% local content,” he
130,000 barrels per day (bpd) in the oil-produc- remarked.
ing regions, he noted. Among the major foreign investors in South
Even though the government has built a data Sudan’s oil industry are China National Petro-
centre and plans to launch special training cen- leum Corp. (CNOC), India’s ONGC Videsh and
tres, it will still need the help of outside experts Malaysia’s Petronas. As of press time, no word
to take the necessary measures to safeguard the was available on these companies’ response to
country’s oilfields, he said. Juba’s plans for slow-motion nationalisation of
“Oil production is an international business the oil sector. ™

PROJECTS & COMPANIES
Kosmos says GTA project is 75% ready

MAURITANIA/SENEGAL US-BASED Kosmos Energy said on Tues- process of pipe rack outfitting and equipment
day (May 9) that work on the Greater Tortue/ installation and testing. In the meantime, BP
Ahmeyim (GTA) project is more than three and its contractors are continuing to work on the
quarters complete. breakwater and hub terminal that will protect
In a report on its performance in the first and support the FLNG unit, it said. Only three
quarter, Kosmos stated that the GTA project, more caissons are left to be installed in the facil-
which will encompass the development of an ity, it noted, and the final caisson of 21 total units
offshore natural gas field that straddles the mar- was moved offshore in early March of this year.
itime border between Senegal and Mauritania BP and its contractors are also due to begin
and the construction of a floating LNG (FLNG) offshore construction on subsea systems at
plant, was about 75% complete as of March 31. GTA before the end of May, Kosmos said in its
It also said that a number of milestones had been first-quarter report.
achieved during the first three months of 2022. GTA, discovered by US-based Kosmos
More specifically, the company indicated that Energy in 2015, is believed to hold some 15 tril-
a contractor for BP, the operator of GTA, had lion cubic feet (425bn cubic metres) of natural
commenced development drilling at the GTA gas. BP joined the project in 2016, and the two
licence area and had completed the top holes at companies made a final investment decision
two of the four wells that will produce first gas. (FID) on first-phase production in late 2018.
Meanwhile, another contractor has installed the To support the LNG component of the pro-
mooring piles for the floating production, stor- ject, BP and Kosmos have contracted Bermu-
age and off-loading (FPSO) vessel that will be da-registered Golar LNG to convert the Gimi
deployed at the block, while the FPSO itself con- LNG tanker into an FLNG vessel with a produc-
tinues to undergo inspection tests and mechani- tion capacity of 2.5mn tonnes per year (tpy). As
cal completion activities in the shipyard. of last November, this FLNG unit was reported
Additionally, Kosmos noted that the FLNG to be 75% technically complete and slated for
vessel for the GTA project had started the delivery in 2023. ™

Rendering of breakwater structure at GTA LNG facility (Image: Eiffage)

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