A gas export pipeline for Ithaca’s Greater Stella Area (GSA) development is ready to receive gas upon the start of production, the company announced in a third-quarter operating update.
The energy operator has launched the four-well development drilling campaign earlier this year and expects to reach first oil in 2014 at a rate of 30,000 barrels of oil per day.
The 60-kilometer 10-inch pipeline will export gas from the floating production facility FPF-1 to the BP operated Central Area Transmission System (CATS) and the gas processing terminal at Teesside.
Modification works on the FPF-1 in the Remontowa shipyard in Gdansk, Poland have also been completed and the vessel has now been successfully refloated, said the project shareholder, Petrofac.
The FPF-1 modifications will allow the project to proceed to the construction of main topsides processing plant and installation activities.
GSA, which will cost about £630million to develop, could hold up to 40million recoverable barrels of oil equivalent.