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“We are currently building an FPSO for the With respect to Block 20/11 offshore Angola,
Campos basin [offshore Brazil] and have been TotalEnergies has said it wants to establish a pro-
operating in the African region since 1995,” he duction hub to facilitate the development of the
remarked. “We hope that we will be able to fur- four oilfields discovered by Angola’s national oil
ther contribute to production of energy in these company (NOC) Sonangol within the licence
regions through these projects and many more area. The French major acquired a 50% stake in
to come.” the block from Sonangol in 2019. ™

Havfram to provide subsea mooring

system for Grand Tortue/Ahmeyim FPSO

SENEGAL/MAURITANIA TECHNIP Energies (France) has awarded a straddles the maritime border between Maurita-
contract to Havfram (Norway) for pre-installa- nia and Senegal. It was discovered by US-based
tion and hook-up services for the subsea moor- Kosmos Energy in 2015 and is believed to hold
ing system that will be used to station a floating some 15 trillion cubic feet (425bn cubic metres)
production, storage and off-loading (FPSO) ves- of natural gas.
sel at the Grand Tortue/Ahmeyim (GTA) block BP joined the project in 2016, and the two
offshore Mauritania and Senegal. companies made a final investment decision
In a statement, Havfram explained that it had (FID) in late 2018. They aim to begin commer-
agreed to provide project management services cial development in 2023.
and to engineer, transport and install the driven The partners will use gas from the licence
piles and mooring lines of the system prior to the area to support an LNG project. To this end,
arrival of the FPSO. Once the FPSO is in place, they have contracted Bermuda-registered Golar
the company will return to GTA to connect the LNG to convert the Gimi LNG tanker into a
pre-installed mooring system to the vessel. floating LNG (FLNG) plant with a production
The Norwegian company did not divulge capacity of 2.5mn tonnes per year (tpy). ™
the value of the contract with Technip Ener-
gies, which is the engineering, procurement,
construction, installation and commission-
ing (EPCIC) contractor for BP, the operator of
GTA. It did report that its project management
and engineering team in Aberdeen had already
begun work on the project.
Odd Strømsnes, the CEO of Havfram,
described the contract as “another significant
mooring project award in what is a core business
line for Havfram.” He added: “This award fur-
ther enhances our already strong track record in
complex mooring projects and we are proud to
have been chosen by Technip Energies for their
award of such a significant project.”
GTA is an ultra-deepwater block that The FPSO will be tied into a pre-installed mooring system (Image: BP)

ReconAfrica, NAMCOR sign

JOA on exploration of PEL 73

NAMIBIA RECONNAISSANCE Energy Africa (Can- in the Kavango basin. The parties had finalised
ada) has signed a joint operating agreement the document on June 11, with CEO Scot Evans
(JOA) with NAMCOR, the national oil com- signing for ReconAfrica and managing director
pany (NOC) of Namibia, on exploration work Immanuel Mulunga signing for NAMCOR.

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