Ophir Energy has been awarded upstream construction contracts for Africa’s first deepwater independent FLNG project.
The independent oil and gas exploration and production company will provide service under a engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) contract for the Fortuna FLNG Project.
The services will be provided to the Subsea Integration Alliance, which is a partnership between OneSubsea, a Schlumberger company, and Subsea 7.
The scope of work for the EPCIC will cover the subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines and for the subsea production systems.
The project will deliver 440 million standard cubic feet per day of gas through infrastructure comprising four wells – three into the Fortuna field and one into the underlying Viscata field, located at an average water depth of 1,790 metres.
The EPCIC schedule is in line with the planned delivery of first gas in 2020 and work will commence at Final Investment Decision (FID).
As part of the Shareholders’ Agreement announced in November 2016, at FID Ophir Equatorial Guinea (Block R) Ltd will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Fortuna JV (comprising Ophir and OneLNG).
Nick Cooper, chief executive of Ophir, said: “With the full suite of upstream and midstream construction contracts now awarded this completes another milestone to FID.
“The government is a key stakeholder in the Fortuna project and I am pleased that the local content requirements in these contracts will help to further develop the state of Equatorial Guinea. Fortuna, West Africa’s first deepwater FLNG Project, is expected to FID before the end of 2017.”