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Petrofac wins contract from BP to

develop procedures for GTA project

SENEGAL UK-BASED Petrofac has won a contract from production capacity of 2.5mn tonnes per year
BP (UK) for services related to the Grand Tor- (tpy). The FLNG unit will process gas extracted
tue/Ahmeyim (GTA) project offshore Senegal from the block by a floating production, storage
and Mauritania. and off-loading (FPSO) vessel.
According to a company statement released BP’s US-based partner Kosmos Energy
earlier this week, the contract covers the devel- reported earlier this week that work on the
opment of operational procedures at the GTA first phase of this gas production and LNG
licence area. Petrofac said it would be developing project was already 58% complete. There has
a framework for all offshore operations, includ- been “material progress across all of the major
ing work on subsea facilities, an LNG hub and workstreams, including the FPSO, floating LNG
the floating production, storage and off-loading vessel, hub terminal (concrete breakwater) and
(FPSO) vessel that will be stationed at the block. subsea infrastructure,” the company said in its
The procedures will be designed to minimise first-quarter earnings statement. “The partner-
risks and prevent harm to the project’s personnel ship is targeting phase one to be around 80%
and physical structures, as well as the environ- complete by year-end.”
ment, it added. Kosmos also said it expected to wrap up
Petrofac did not reveal the value of the deal negotiations with Golar LNG on the Gimi con-
or say when it expected to finish drawing up the version project on schedule in the second quar-
procedures. ter of 2021. “The process remains on track, with
Steve Webber, the company’s senior documentation being finalised and the govern-
vice-president of operations, expressed satis- ment approval process well underway,” it said. ™
faction with the new contract. “BP is an impor-
tant, long-standing client, and we look forward
to supporting them in operating safely and
responsibly in their delivery of the GTA Phase
1 Project, which is creating a new LNG hub in
Africa,” he said.
GTA is an ultra-deepwater block that strad-
dles the maritime border between Mauritania
and Senegal. It was discovered in 2015 and
is believed to hold some 15 trillion cubic feet
(425bn cubic metres) of natural gas. Commer-
cial development is slated to begin in 2023 and
the partners intend to use gas from GTA to sup-
port an LNG project.
To this end, they have arranged for Ber-
muda-registered Golar LNG to convert the
Gimi LNG tanker into a floating gas liquefac-
tion plant, known as an FLNG vessel, with a GTA straddles the Mauritania-Senegal maritime border (Image: Kosmos Energy)

Total launches Zinia Phase 2 project

ANGOLA FRANCE’S Total has launched the second stage were performed in Angola, without any inci-
of development work at Zinia, a section of Block dent.” Capital expenditures came in at 10%
17 offshore Angola. below the budgeted amount, resulting in savings
In a joint statement with Angola’s National of $150mn, it added.
Oil, Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANPG), Total Total did not reveal initial production rates,
reported that it had brought the Zinia Phase but it noted that Zinia Phase 2 was slated to see
2 short-cycle project on stream. It said it had yields peak at 40,000 barrels per day (bpd) of
reached this milestone on schedule, after “more crude oil in mid-2022. The project will encom-
than 3mn man-hours of work, of which 2mn pass the drilling of nine new wells at the field.

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