GTA LNG project receives FPSO vessel

The FPSO vessel is currently being moored at the site 40 km offshore in a water depth of 120 m. It will be operated by bp, on behalf of the project’s partners: bp, Kosmos Energy, PETROSEN, and SMH. The project will produce gas from reservoirs in deep water, approximately 120 km offshore, through a subsea system.

Following completion of its construction at the COSCO Qidong Shipyard, China, the FPSO has travelled more than 12 000 nautical miles to the GTA site.

Dave Campbell, bp’s Senior Vice President, Mauritania and Senegal, said: “bp is investing in today’s energy system – and tomorrow’s too, and GTA Phase 1 represents this investment in action.

“And this is a huge landmark step for the project, an innovative LNG development that is leading the way in unlocking gas resources for Mauritania and Senegal. The FPSO vessel has travelled halfway around the globe and its safe arrival and installation is testament to the resilience, skills, teamwork and huge effort of all the partners involved. We are now entirely focused on safe completion of the project as we continue to work towards first gas.”

The GTA Phase 1 development is expected to produce around 2.3 million tpy of LNG for more than 20 years. It is the first gas development in this new basin offshore Mauritania and Senegal. With wells located in water depths of up to 2850 m, the GTA Phase 1 development has the deepest subsea infrastructure in Africa. The multi-billion-dollar investment has been granted the status of National Project of Strategic Importance by the Presidents of both Mauritania and Senegal.

The FPSO will have up to 140 people on board during normal operation. With an area equivalent to two football fields and 10-storeys in height, the FPSO is made of more than 81 000 t of steel, 37 000 m of pipe spools, and 1.52 million m of cable.

The FPSO is expected to process over 500 million standard cubic feet of gas per day. It will remove water, condensate and impurities from the gas before transferring it via pipeline to the floating LNG (FLNG) vessel at the Hub Terminal approximately 10 km offshore. At the FLNG vessel, the gas will be cryogenically cooled, liquefied and stored before being transferred to LNG carriers for export, while some is allocated to help meet growing demand in the two host countries.

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