Fossil energy – Libya
Mellitah Oil & Gas – a 50:50 joint venture between Eni and Libya’s state player National Oil Corporation (NOC) – has released pre-qualification documents for the platform, whose 24,000-tonne, 55-metre-high deck will sit atop a 44,000-tonne jacket that will be piled into position above the E Structure.
The fixed platform is the centrepiece of a multi-billion-dollar Mediterranean Sea mega-project called Structures A&E, which will produce 760 million cubic feet per day of gas and 30,000 barrels per day of condensate and oil, with associated carbon dioxide piped onshore for storage.
On offer is an EPCI contract covering the entire platform, with initial responses due to be submitted to Mellitah by 8 July.
Contract execution is expected to start in the first quarter of 2023, in readiness for the platform to be installed offshore in Block NC 41 during the third quarter of 2025.
First production from the platform is due to begin in the first quarter of 2026.
The EPCI scope includes transport and commissioning work, as well as front-end engineering and design studies.
Other elements of Mellitah’s project involve a wellhead platform on Structure A, which will export hydrocarbons to Eni’s existing Sabratha platform via a 43-kilometre, 18-inch multi-phase pipeline.
At the onshore Mellitah terminal, meanwhile, new processing trains, a sulphur recovery unit and extra utilities will be built, with gas exported to Italy via the existing Greenstream pipeline.