The second FPSO is expected to begin storing and producing oil from the TEN fields from mid-2016. The FPSO is expected to produce some 75,000 barrels of crude per day initially for 20 years.
Tullow Ghana Limited General Manager Charles Darko told an Accra based Radio that the TEN projects were ahead of schedule. “The TEN project is progressing steadily. We have just cross the 50% oval project completion and it’s on track. One of the key elements which is the FPSO is also progressing and we are expecting that by the end of this year it will be in Ghanaian waters so it’s on track. It will ramp up to it main plate of about75,000 barrels per day, any time from mid-2016 to December 2016,” he explained.
Charles Darko disclosed that the first wells to deliver the oil have been drilled and that Tullow is committed to meeting its targets.
The second FPSO being built in Singapore will have an oil storage capacity of 1.7 million barrels and a gas capacity and water injection capacity of 170mn standard cubic feet daily and 120,000 barrels water daily respectively.
New FPSO Vessel in GHANA
The new Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading Vessel (FPSO) being constructed by Tullow Ghana for the Tweneboa, Enyaera, Ntomme (TEN) oil exploration project has been named after late President John Evans Atta Mills.
The new FPSO is being built in Singapore by Tullow Ghana and partners such as MODEC and Jurong Shipyard Limited.
Mr. Emmanuel Kofi Buah, Ghana’s Energy Minister, led a delegation to Singapore to inspect and name the facility.
They delegation included Mr. Charles Darku, the General Manager of Tullow, Mr. Theophilous Ahwireng, Chief Executive of Ghana Petroleum Commission, Mr. Alex Mould of GNPC, Mr. Victor Sunu-Attah, Chief Petroleum Engineer at GNPC, Mrs. Bernice Natue, Communication Manager at Tullow as well as other officials from the partnering companies.
The Energy Minister said the FSPO was named after the late President due to his honest and dedicated service to Ghana adding, “Late President Mills stood for excellence and the new FPSO will deliver just that.”
He said the government was determined to make the oil resources a blessing more than a curse to the country and that the setting up of the Petroleum Commission, the Petroleum Management Revenue Act and the Local Content Bill were all geared towards that.
There are three Ghanaian Engineers working on the facility and the local content was also given a boost when some components of the facility was given to local contractors including Seaweld Engineering and MODEC.
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