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Key Sangomar contractor taps Shawcor for pipe-coating services
SENEGAL
CANADA’S Shawcor revealed last week that it had agreed to support London-based Subsea 7’s work at Sangomar, an oil-bearing block offshore Senegal.
In a statement, the company said it had won a contract worth CAD30-50mn ($22.6-37.6mn) from Subsea Integration Alliance, the non-in- corporated alliance between Subsea 7 and One- Subsea. The deal calls for Shawcor’s pipe-coating division to provide thermal insulation coating for the alliance.
The Canadian company hopes to begin work on the project in the first quarter of 2021 and to wrap the operation in the second quarter of the same year. It will execute the contract out of its facility in Orkanger, Norway.
Subsea Integration Alliance is one of the main contractors hired to execute the first phase of work at Sangomar. It has already provided front-end engineering and design (FEED) ser- vices for the project and signed an agreement worth at least $500mn with RSSD, the joint ven- ture formed to develop the block, earlier this year. Under the new agreement, it will build and install integrated subsea production systems, as well as subsea flowlines, risers and umbilicals at the site. RSSD instructed the alliance to proceed with work on the contract after making a final investment decision (FID) earlier this year.
The other contractors working with RSSD are Japan’s MODEC and Houston-based Dia- mond Offshore. MODEC will be responsible
for purchasing the floating production, storage and off-loading (FPSO) vessel that the joint ven- ture will anchor at Sangomar. The vessel, which is slated for delivery in 2013, will be able to store at least 1.3mn barrels of crude. It will also be able to process 100,000 barrels per day of crude oil, as well as 145,000 bpd of water injection and 130mn cubic feet (3.96mn cubic metres) per day of natural gas.
Diamond Offshore, meanwhile, will be working under well-based contracts for two of its drilling rigs. It will make the Ocean Black- Rhino rig available to RSSD from the first quar- ter of 2021 until the first quarter of 2023. The joint venture will then use the Ocean Black- Hawk rig for drilling work at Sangomar from the first quarter of 2022 until the first quarter of 2023.
Australia’s Woodside Petroleum serves as the operator of the Sangomar block and owns a 35% stake in the project. The remaining equity in the project is split 40% to Cairn Energy Aus- tralia, 15% to FAR Ltd (Australia) and 10% to PetroSen, the national oil company (NOC) of Senegal.
The partners discovered oil at the offshore block in 2014. The site is home to the Rufisque, Sangomar Offshore and Sangomar Deep Off- shore fields, which hold around 645mn barrels of oil equivalent (boe) in recoverable reserves, including some 485mn barrels of crude and 160mn boe of natural gas. ™
The Sangomar block includes three fields: Rufisque, Sangomar Offshore and Sangomar Deep Offshore (Image: FAR Ltd)
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