MODEC has signed a contract with Woodside for the operations and maintenance of a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel for the Sangomar Field Development Phase 1, offshore Senegal.
According to MODEC, the operations and maintenance contract will cover all in-country installation and commissioning activities following which an initial 10 year operations and maintenance term will commence.
The FPSO will be deployed at the Sangomar field located approximately 100 kilometers south of Dakar, Senegal.
The Sangomar Field Development is Senegal’s first offshore oil development.
Scheduled for delivery in 2023, the FPSO vessel will be permanently moored at a water depth of approximately 780 meters by an External Turret mooring system to be supplied by SOFEC, a MODEC group company.
The FPSO will be capable of processing 100,000 barrels of crude oil per day, 130 million standard cubic feet of gas per day, 145,000 barrels of water injection per day and will have minimum storage capacity of 1,300,000 barrels of crude oil.