Page 7 - GLNG Week 19 2022
P. 7
GLNG AFRICA GLNG
Kosmos says GTA project
is 75% ready
SENEGAL US-BASED Kosmos Energy said on Tues- of pipe rack outfitting and equipment installation
day (May 9) that work on the Greater Tortue/ and testing. In the meantime, BP and its contrac-
Ahmeyim (GTA) project is more than three tors are continuing to work on the breakwater
quarters complete. and hub terminal that will protect and support
In a report on its performance in the first the FLNG unit, it said. Only three more caissons
quarter, Kosmos stated that the GTA project, are left to be installed in the facility, it noted, and
which will encompass the development of an the final caisson of 21 total units was moved off-
offshore natural gas field that straddles the mar- shore in early March of this year.
itime border between Senegal and Mauritania BP and its contractors are also due to begin
and the construction of a floating LNG (FLNG) offshore construction on subsea systems at
plant, was about 75% complete as of March 31. It GTA before the end of May, Kosmos said in its
also said that a number of milestones had been first-quarter report.
achieved during the first three months of 2022. GTA, discovered by US-based Kosmos
More specifically, the company indicated that Energy in 2015, is believed to hold some 15 tril-
a contractor for BP, the operator of GTA, had lion cubic feet (425bn cubic metres) of natural
commenced development drilling at the GTA gas. BP joined the project in 2016, and the two
licence area and had completed the top holes at companies made a final investment decision
two of the four wells that will produce first gas. (FID) on first-phase production in late 2018.
Meanwhile, another contractor has installed the To support the LNG component of the pro-
mooring piles for the floating production, stor- ject, BP and Kosmos have contracted Bermu-
age and off-loading (FPSO) vessel that will be da-registered Golar LNG to convert the Gimi
deployed at the block, while the FPSO itself con- LNG tanker into an FLNG vessel with a produc-
tinues to undergo inspection tests and mechani- tion capacity of 2.5mn tonnes per year (tpy). As
cal completion activities in the shipyard. of last November, this FLNG unit was reported
Additionally, Kosmos noted that the FLNG to be 75% technically complete and slated for
vessel for the GTA project had started the process delivery in 2023.
Wintershall acquiring Edison’s 11.25%
interest in Algeria’s Reggane gas facility
ALGERIA GERMAN energy firm Wintershall Dea plans to (30.75%) and Repsol (29.25%).
acquire Edison’s 11.25% participating interest in Algeria is the largest LNG producer in Africa
Algeria’s Reggane Nord natural gas project. and is the third-largest exporter of gas to Europe,
Wintershall, present in Algeria since 2002, after Russia and Norway, through two subsea gas
has a current stake of 19.5% interest in the pro- pipelines and LNG facilities at two locations.
ject comprising six gas fields over a 695-square Recently, Wintershall Dea and Sonatrach
mile (1,800-square km) area in the North Afri- extended an earlier agreement to consider new
can country’s south-west region. business opportunities in gas production and
If the deal is approved by Algerian authori- low-carbon energy solutions.
ties, project stakeholders will comprise Algeria’s
state oil utility Sonatrach (40%), Wintershall Dea
Week 19 13•May•2022 www. NEWSBASE .com P7
