The floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel is set to depart for Ghana to work on Eni's Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) development offshore Ghana after being named.
The 1.7 MMbbl capacity John Agyekum Kufuor was named after Ghana’s President Emeritus, H.E. John Agyekum Kufuor.
The vessel, which will develop the Sankofa and Gye Nyame fields, 60km offshore Ghana in the Tano Basin, as part of the OCTP project, was built in the Keppel shipyard, Singapore.
The unit it 333m-long and 60m-wide, is set to work up to 2036 and beyond, supplying gas to Ghana's thermal power sector.
The FPSO 58,000 b/d oil treatment capacity and 210 MMcf/d gas treatment capacity. Additional facilities include a water injection module of up to 55,000 b/d and gas injection facilities of up to 150 MMcf/d. A 18 subsea wells will be connected to the FPSO, while a 63km pipeline to shore will provide the domestic gas supply to Ghana’s thermal power plants.
Oil production start-up is expected in 2017, while the gas production which will supply the domestic market for power generation to 2036, is expected in 2018.
Yinson awarded Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine conversion work on the FPSO for OCTP in 2015.
Eni is the OCTP block operator with a 44.44% stake. The other partners are Vitol (35.56%) and GNPC (20%).
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