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Saipem charters floating hotel for GTA project

PROJECTS & SAIPEM, the Italian oilfield services provider to 600 people and is certified to DP3 class. It is
COMPANIES (OSP) that is serving as general contractor for the outfitted with an advanced telescopic motion
Grand Tortue/Ahmeyim (GTA) natural gas and compensated gangway system that facilitates
LNG project, has chartered an offshore accom- personnel transfer to drilling platforms and
modation vessel for the offshore block, which other offshore facilities.
straddles the maritime border between Senegal As of press time, neither Saipem nor Edda
and Mauritania. Accommodations had commented on the finan-
The charter provides for the deployment of cial terms of the charter.
the Edda Fides, an accommodation vessel owned GTA is an ultra-deepwater block that lies
by Edda Accommodation (Norway), at the block athwart the maritime border between Maurita-
beginning in the second half of this year. The ves- nia and Senegal. It was discovered by US-based
sel will remain at GTA for a period of six months Kosmos Energy in 2015 and is believed to hold
firm, and Saipem will have the opportunity to some 15 trillion cubic feet (425bn cubic metres)
extend its charter, Edda said in a press release of natural gas. BP joined the project in 2016, and
last week. the two companies made a final investment deci-
The company noted that the Edda Fides was sion (FID) on first-phase production in late 2018.
currently under charter to Equinor (Norway), The partners intend to use gas from the
which is using the vessel’s accommodation and licence area to support an LNG project. To this
associated facilities at a drilling site offshore end, they have contracted Bermuda-registered
Australia. The ship must finish out this charter Golar LNG to convert the Gimi LNG tanker into
before moving to GTA, it explained, adding that a floating LNG (FLNG) plant with a production
the Edda Fides was now fully booked for 2022 as capacity of 2.5mn tonnes per year (tpy). The
a result of the new deal with Saipem. FLNG unit will process gas delivered via pipeline
The vessel is capable of accommodating up from the FPSO.™

AMERICAS

NGC, Shell sign HoA on pre-FEED phase of

work on Manatee gas processing

PROJECTS & NATIONAL Gas Co. of Trinidad and Tobago Manatee was anticipated to alleviate the decline
COMPANIES Ltd (NGC) indicated last week that it was gear- in the country’s gas supplies. The new field is
ing up to work with Shell on the processing of likely to be “the single largest new gas production
natural gas from the offshore Manatee field. [stream] in Trinidad and Tobago for decades,” he
In a statement, NGC explained that it had was quoted as saying by Argus Media.
signed a heads of agreement (HoA) with Shell Manatee is a section of a larger gas field,
on starting the pre-FEED (front-end engi- Loran-Manatee, that straddles the maritime
neering and design) phase of work related border between Trinidad and Tobago and Ven-
to the processing of gas from Manatee at the ezuela. Shell and NGC signed a 25-year produc-
Beachfield facility. The document is designed tion-sharing contract (PSC) for the site in Port of
to establish a framework for commercial and Spain last November.
technical co-operation during this phase of Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Keith
work, it said. Rowley said at a ceremony marking the signing
NGC did not divulge any specific details of of the PSC that the deal showed his administra-
the pre-FEED phase of the Manatee project. tion’s determination to secure more feedstock
According to previous reports, Manatee is not for the country’s petrochemical and LNG
expected to begin production until 2025. The plants. “Today’s event is the culmination of the
field, which holds about 2.7 trillion cubic feet negotiations between the Ministry [of Energy
(76.46bn cubic metres) of gas, will yield about and Energy Industries] and Shell and the sub-
300mn cubic feet (8.5mn cubic metres) per day sequent approval by [the] government,” he said,
of gas in the initial phase of development, rising according to a report from Trinidad and Tobago
eventually to a peak of 700 mmcf (19.8 mcm) per Guardian. “It signifies this government’s ongoing
day commitment and action to meet domestic natu-
Stuart Young, the energy minister of Trinidad ral gas requirements and our resourcefulness in
and Tobago, said last year that development of overcoming obstacles.”™

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