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Contract awarded as Turkey

pushes for Sakarya development

TURKEY US oilfield services specialist Schlumberger this subsea equipment, a monoethylene glycol
week announced that it had been awarded a con- (MEG) injection pipeline and 170 km of gas
tract as part of a consortium by Turkish Petro- export pipelines connecting to the port of Filyos,
leum (TPAO) for work on the offshore Sakarya where the foundations of a gas processing facility
gas field. were laid in June.
The news comes as the country’s energy and TPAO discovered 320 bn cubic metres of gas
natural resources ministry anticipates the field at Tuna-1 in August last year, which was subse-
commencing commercial production in 2023 quently upgraded to 405 bcm two months later
and providing around a third of Turkish natural and renamed Sakarya. In early June, the com-
gas demand by 2027. Meanwhile, the contract pany announced that it had found another 135
covers the final part of the project’s midstream bcm with the Asmara-1 well, taking the total
section, which will tie the field to processing volume discovered so far at Sakarya to 540 bcm.
facilities on the Zonguldak coast and connection TPAO has been carrying out a 10-well drill-
to the country’s gas grid. ing campaign designed to achieve first gas and
Schlumberger and Luxembourg-registered 3.65 bcm per year by 2023 and a further 30 wells
Subsea 7 were awarded an engineering, pro- will be drilled to reach an annual plateau of 15
curement, construction and installation (EPCI) bcm by 2025. Local media have begun quoting
of end-to-end production solutions for Sakarya. an anticipated flow rate of 5-10 bcm in 2023,
According to Schlumberger, the project scope though no explanation for the increase has been
covers subsurface solutions to onshore produc- provided.
tion, including well completions, subsea pro- Under the drilling programme, the Fatih
duction systems (SPS), subsea umbilicals, risers, drillship began work on the Turkali-5 well in
flowlines (SURF) and an early production facil- mid-September, following the successful com-
ity (EPF). pletion of the Tuna1-, Turkali-1, 2, 3 and 4, and
The American firm will carry out the well Asmara-1 wells.
completions’ scope and the design, construction In August, TPAO lit the first gas flare at the
and commissioning of the early production facil- new field and performed the first flow test at Tur-
ity, which it said would be capable of handling kali-2. That well flowed at 22 mmcf (0.623 mcm)
350mn cubic feet (9.9mn cubic metres) per day per day, less than the 26.5 mmcf (0.75 mcm) per
of gas. Meanwhile, the SPS and SURF systems day recorded in July during a test which sug-
will be delivered by Schlumberger and Subsea 7’s gested the reservoir could flow at around 42.5
subsea technologies, production and processing mmcf (1.2 mcm per day).
systems division OneSubsea. Another drillship, the Kanuni, which carried
This covers the provision and installation of out completions at Turkali-2, is working on a
infield flowlines, tie-in connections, associated third production test at the well.™

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