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Friday, January 16, 2015
SBM Offshore received formal Production Readiness Notice (PRN) for N’Goma FPSO from ENI. The N’Goma FPSO is the vessel used on ENI’s Angolan Block 15/06, which saw initial first oil in November.
Following first oil and the completion of the 72-hour continuous production test in early-December, the PRN goes into effect retroactively to November 28 and the vessel is on hire from that day forward.
ENI, operator of Block 15/06 on behalf of the JV which also includes Sonangol Pesquisa e Produção, SSI Fifteen Ltd., and Falcon Oil Holding Angola SA, hired the FPSO under a 12-year lease and operate contract. The N’Goma will stay onsite at ENI’s West Hub development on the block.
The FPSO is owned by Sonasing and operated by OPS, a JV company formed by SBM Offshore (50%) and Sonangol (50%). The vessel has 100,000 bpd of oil processing capacity, 115 Mmscf/d of gas handling capacity, and water injection capacity of 120,000 bpd.
The N’Goma FPSO was previously the FPSO Xikomba for ExxonMobil’s Block 15 Xikomba field. The FPSO was disconnected in 2011 at the end of the field’s life. SBM then converted the vessel, renaming it N’Goma, at the Keppel shipyard in Singapore before it set sail for the Paenal yard in Angola where it completed the final scope of work on time.
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