Doris Gets Senegal Contract
French engineering firm Doris Engineering has been awarded an advisor contract by the Senegalese ministry of petroleum and energies for the development of oil and gas projects offshore Senegal, it said January 24.
“This two-year mission consists of reviewing the optimisation and the robustness of the field development performed on these projects to be in line with the ministry expectations. It focuses on two projects: Greater Tortue Ahmeyim, operated by BP; and the SNE project, operated by Woodside,” the company said.
Greater Tortue Ahmeyim is on the border between Senegal and Mauritania and lies in ultradeep-water. The facilities under review include the subsea network, the floating production ship (FPSO) and the floating liquefaction (FLNG) facility.
The SNE deepwater oil field is in the Rufisque, Sangomar and Sangomar deep blocks, within the Senegalese portion of the Mauritania-Senegal-Guinea Bissau Basin. The subsea network and the FPSO are also part of the review, Doris said.
Late last month, BP and its US partner Kosmos Energy announced that the final investment decision (FID) for Phase 1 of the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project has been agreed. The project will produce gas from a deepwater subsea system and mid-water FPSO to an FLNG facility at a nearshore hub on the Mauritania and Senegal maritime border. The FLNG facility for phase 1 is designed to provide some 2.5mn mt/yr on average, with the total recoverable gas (P-mean reserves) estimated to be 25 trillion ft3.
BP is operator for production and FLNG development and expects project execution activities to begin by the end of March. Kosmos continues to be exploration operator of the offshore blocks.