Offshore staff
PERTH, Australia – Woodside Energy has issued progress reports on its current field development projects offshore Senegal and Australia.
At the COSCO shipyard in Dalian, China, first steel was cut in February for the topsides for the FPSO Léopold Sédar Senghor for the Sangomar Phase 1 project offshore Senegal. A VLCC oil tanker is undergoing conversion at the yard.
Fabrication also continues on the turret mooring system and on subsea equipment across multiple international locations. A subsea modular system test has been completed in Malaysia for the xmas tree system. The first batch of xmas trees are ready for shipment to Dakar (first subsea wellheads have already been delivered to Senegal).
The drillship Ocean BlackRhino arrived at the Las Palmas shipyard in the Canary Islands for upgrades and campaign readiness activities. In Dakar, construction works are progressing on support facilities include a liquid mud plant and workshops, ahead of the planned development drilling start in mid-2021.
Woodside’s latest review for the Phase 1 development estimates an overall cost of $4.6 billion. This takes into account further detailed engineering, including finalization of development well planning and the anticipated execution costs to complete the development in the current environment.
First oil is targeted for 2023.
Offshore Western Australia, Woodside expects development drilling to begin in mid-year for the Greater Western Flank Phase 3 project.
Around the same time, installations should get under way for the subsea production system for the Pyxis Hub and subsea equipment for Julimar-Brunello Phase 2.
04/22/2021
