Work on UK independent Ithaca Energy's Greater Stella Area (GSA) floating production unit is reaching a peak in Remontowa's Polish shipyard.
Ithaca says manning levels on the FPF-1 vessel have been at historic highs over recent weeks, with good progress being made towards achieving mechanical completion as planned in Q3 2015.
The FPF-1, which was previously used by Hess on the North Sea Ivanhoe and Rob Roy fields, is due to be deployed on Ithaca Energy's Greater Stella Area development, on which a planned five well development drilling program was completed last month, using the ENSCO 100 jackup drilling rig.
GSA is in Blocks 29/10a and 30/6a, under license P.011. and is due on stream in Q2 2016, following planned Q1 sailaway of the FPF-1 from Gdansk in Q1 the same year. The 30 MMboe development comprises the Stella and Harrier fields, which are being developed as subsea wells tied back to the FPF-1 semisubmersible floating production unit. In total, seven wells are planned, five on Stella and two on Harrier.
Ithaca says the 2015 subsea infrastructure installation campaign is advancing well on the project. Since the start of April, the mid-water arch and single anchor loading oil export structures have both been installed and the northern drill centre well tie-ins have also been completed. The remaining installation works are scheduled to be concluded by Q3 2015.rig was demobilized from the field following drilling and testing of the Stella Ekofisk well.
Flow testing on the production wells achieved a combined maximum flow test rate during clean-up operations of over 53,000 boe/d (100%).
"This well capacity significantly de-risks the initial annualized production forecast for the Greater Stella Area hub of approximately 30,000 boe/d (100%), 16,000 boe/d net to Ithaca," said the firm.
Partners on the project are Dyas (25.34% interest) and Petrofac (20%), with Ithaca holding the remaining 54.66%.
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