GoM Winterfell project set for summer drilling start

May 9, 2023
Kosmos Energy expects development drilling for the Winterfell project in the US Gulf of Mexico (GoM) to begin this summer, the company said in a results update.

Offshore staff

DALLAS, TX – Kosmos Energy expects development drilling for the Winterfell project in the US Gulf of Mexico (GoM) to begin this summer, the company said in a results update.

The partners expect to sign host facility and export agreements by mid-year. First oil could follow toward the end of first-quarter 2024.

Elsewhere in the GoM, the Tiberius infrastructure-led exploration well, targeting about 135 MMbbl of oil in a four-way structural trap, should spud during the third quarter this year.

A vessel has been contracted for a workover this fall on the Kodiak ST3 well. The Odd Job subsea pump project is 45% complete and on track to be in service by mid-2024.

Offshore Mauritania and Senegal, Phase 1 of the bp-operated Greater Tortue Ahmeyim LNG should deliver first gas around the end of the year.

At the hub terminal, construction has finished with the current focus on final commissioning for handover to operations around the end of June.

Laying of the deepwater section of the pipeline from the field to the FPSO is underway, to be followed by installation of the infield flowlines and subsea structures.

The FPSO should arrive at the offshore location by mid-year, at which point hookup and commissioning will start. Around the same time, the FLNG vessel is due to sail to its offshore destination.

Offshore Ghana, operator Tullow expects to bring five new wells online across the Jubilee main reservoir and Jubilee Southeast development from the end of the second quarter through the end of the third quarter, comprising four producers and one injector well. These new wells should lift production at Jubilee above 110,000 bbl/d by the end of 2023.

05.09.2023