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Turkey selects Wood for Sakarya PMC work

TURKEY TURKISH Petroleum (TPAO) this week procurement and installation of the subsea
appointed UK-based Wood Group as integrated production system, gas transport pipeline and
project management consultant (PMC) for the umbilical, and the onshore processing facility in
development of the Sakarya gas field. Filyos.
The field is located in the Black Sea, 150km off A week earlier, TPAO awarded a contract to
Turkey’s northern Zonguldak coast. Italian EPC specialist Saipem for the transport
TPAO discovered 320bn cubic metres of gas and installation (T&I) of 175km of pipelines
at the Tuna-1 well in August 2020 and this was tying Sakarya back to the Turkish mainland.
subsequently upgraded to 405bcm two months According to Saipem, the pipelaying will take
later and renamed Sakarya. place in Spring 2022 with the contract covering
In early June, the company announced that it the transport and installation (T&I) of pipelines
had found another 135bcm with the Asmara-1 to a water depth of 2,200 metres.
well, taking the total volume discovered so far at It added that the work will be conducted
Sakarya to 540bcm. However, in its statement to mainly by its Castorone vessel.
press, Wood said that the field had “a confirmed Meanwhile, US oilfield services specialist
capacity of 405[bcm] of natural gas”. Schlumberger and Luxembourg-registered Sub-
On completion of the first development sea 7 were awarded an EPCI contract in Octo-
phase in 2023, 10mn cubic metres (mcm) per ber covering subsurface solutions to onshore
day of would be delivered to the Turkish grid, production, including well completions, subsea
helping to build the energy resilience of the production systems (SPS), subsea umbilicals,
country, Wood said. risers, flowlines (SURF), and an early production
“The new discovery could alleviate much of facility (EPF) for the field.
Turkey’s domestic gas import dependence, most The EPF will be capable of handling 350mn
of which comes from Russia, Azerbaijan and cubic feet (9.9mn cubic metres) per day of gas.
Iran via pipelines, along with liquefied natural In August, TPAO lit the first gas flare at the
gas from several countries including Nigeria, new field and performed the first flow test at Tur-
Algeria and the US,” Wood said. kali-2. That well flowed at 22mmcf (0.623mcm)
A Wood team will carry out the integrated per day, less than the 26.5mmcf (0.75mcm)
project management and engineering verifi- per day recorded in July during a test which
cation for the first engineering, procurement, suggested the reservoir could flow at around
construction and installation (EPCI) phase 42.5mmcf (1.2mcm per day). The latest reservoir
of the project which includes engineering, test at Turkali-2 ran at 0.65mcm per day.™

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