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Friday, April 8, 2016
Tullow Oil issued an update on the issue with the turret bearing on the FPSO for the Jubilee field. The company said a technical investigation of the condition of the turret bearing on the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah confirmed that the bearing has been damaged. While the turret is no longer able to rotate as originally designed, oil production and gas export can continue but under revised operating and off-take procedures.
Tullow and its partners are undertaking an analysis of the root cause of this issue and a project team is assessing which long-term remediation option is most appropriate. Initial feasibility studies by the team have confirmed that the bearing issue can be fully resolved.
The FPSO Kwame Nkrumah has now been placed on “heading control” through the use of tugs which minimize vessel movement around the bearing. New operating procedures, including the use of a dynamically-positioned shuttle tanker and a storage tanker, are being implemented to assure safe production and off-take operations.
Tullow currently estimates that production from the FPSO will re-start in approximately two weeks time and will also take time to ramp-up. Tullow’s production guidance will be re-issued once the new operating arrangements have stabilized.
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