Africa and the Middle East

Abana,
The Abana field is being developed by a 90m-long bulk carrier, converted into the Agbani floating production facility.	The barge arriving at Great Yarmouth in July 1998.	The conversion was completed in a record 20 weeks.
The barge and all equipment installed was supplied by Expro.	On 7 December 1998 the vessel was towed to Holland for dry-tow loading.	The floating production facility Agbani on station at the Abana field.
An aerial view of the Agbani floating production facility.

Agbami Oil Field,
The Deepwater Discovery was used to drill the Agbami wells.	Map of Nigeria showing the location of Agbami.	Agbami is being developed with a subsea production system tied back to a floating production, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) ship.

Al Shaheen Oil Field
The North field covers 6,000km² and extends from onshore to three contract areas; RasGas (RG), Qatargas (QG) and North Field Alpha (NFA).	Maersk Oil has 18 permanent platforms in the block 5 field, 180km north of Doha.	Oil and gas account for more than 70% of Qatar’s total government revenue.
ExxonMobil, QP and JV partners are developing the massive North Field. Resources exceed 25 billion oil-equivalent barrels (gross).	The crude oil blend is lifted by customers from a floating storage tanker moored at the Al Shaheen field.	An example of a PS1 platform in Qatar.

Amenam-Kpono Oil and Gas Field
The sits astride offshore blocks OML 99 and OML 70, about 30km off the eastern part of the Niger Delta.	Amenam-Kpono field location map.	The walkway to AMP1, Amenam-Kpono's production platform.
The bridge link between Amenam-Kpono platforms.	A field schematic of the Amenam-Kpono process platforms.	The 11,500t AMP1 platform was the largest the McDermott had ever built in its Dubai yard.

BBLT, Block 14
The compliant piled tower ready for operation.	Installing a topsides module.	The support vessel approaching Herema's Thialf crane vessel.
Thialf installing modules.	BBLT undergoing commissioning.	BBLT lies in 1,280ft of water covering 1,560 square miles.
BBLT has the first Compliant Piled Tower (CPT) outside the Gulf of Mexico.	Hooking up the modules.

Bonga Deepwater Project, Niger Delta
The position of the Bonga, within the Niger Delta blocks.	The layout schematic of the Bonga.	The Seaway Legend, which will carry out survey and tie-in work.
ABB will provide 29 subsea christmas trees.	ABB will supply 29 jumper connections, in its largest subsea order to date.	The subsea facilities layout.
Shell decided on an FPSO development solution.	Bonga FPSO in Korea.	Bonga FPSO arriving on the Tyne.

Ceiba,
Map of well locations	Showing The Sedco 700 testing Ceiba-4.	Testing Ceiba-4 by the Sedco 700
The Sedco 700 testing Ceiba-4	Map showing location of Equatorial Guinea and block F and G.	Trace showing oil and gas in wells, Ceiba-1 to 4.
Seismic map with well locations.	Schematic of field development.

Chinguetti Oil Field
The Chinguetti field lies off the coast of Mauritania and will be developed from an FPSO.	PSC area B lies approx. 80km west of the Mauritanian coastline.	The Chinguetti development has 21 exploration, appraisal and development wells.
Chinguetti is dominated by a major east-west trending normal fault with a maximum throw in excess of 250m at the crest.	The Berge Helene was built as a tanker but converted to an FPSO in 2001-02.	The Berge Helene uses a single point mooring (SPM) system.

Dalia Field
The launch of Dalia is a key step in the development of block 17, offshore Angola.	The FPSO vessel for Dalia is capable of processing 240,000bpd.	Eight flexible risers using Integrated Production Bundle technology take the fluid up to the surface facilities.
The Dalia FPSO has a water injection capacity of 405,000bpd, water treatment capacity of 265,000bpd and gas compression capacity of 8mscf per day.	Dalia reservoir plan.

Dolphin Gas Project
The Dolphin gas project's Ras Laffan processing plant.	The Taweelah receiving facility in Abu Dhabi.

Ekpe Phase II,
The Ekpe gas compression platform was installed using Smart-Leg float-over technology, in Nigeria, in 1997.	Side view showing three sets of Smart-Leg jacks.	The OY jacket, constructed by McDermott-ETPM.
The topsides, prior to float-over of the jacket.	The Ekpe float-over, with the support barge preparing to withdraw.	Installation of the Ekpe topsides, using Smart-Leg.
A Smart-Shoe supporting the deck. It collapses when installation is complete.

Epsilon Oil Field
The Epsilon oil field lies at a water depth of around 30m in the Aegean Sea.	The field contains immature oil with a high proportion of hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide.	The oil field is connected to the Prinos offshore platform, known as Delta.

Espoir Field
The Espoir Ivoirien FPSO in the Espoir field, offshore Ivory Coast.	Espoir processing system.	External turret of the FPSO.
Wellhead platform.	Outfitting of the FPSO.	Topsides facilities include crude oil production, water injection and gas compression.
Mission D boilers which are fired on deck.	The oil is exported by shuttle tanker and the gas is exported to shore via a subsea pipeline.	The Espoir field has a peak production rate of 35,000bopd.

Etame Offshore Field
There are an estimated 23 million barrels of oil under the Etame rig.	The annual output through the FPSO Petroleo Nautipa is six million barrels.	The Etame field covers 3,074km² off the coast of Gabon.

Exxon-East Area NGL II
The startup of the NGL II project brings the total of ExxonMobil worldwide startups to five this year, including Kizomba C Mondo (Angola), Volve (Norway), Starling (U.) and ACG Phase 3(Azerbaijan).

Gimboa Field
The Gimboa field subsea layout. The field is operated by Sonangol on behalf of Norsk Hydro, ACR (Angola Consulting Resources) and SOMOIL (Sociedade Petrolefira Angolana).	Saipem are converting an oil tanker T/T Magdelaine into the FPSO Gimboa. The FPSO has 1.8 million barrels of oil storage and a production capacity of 60,000bpd.	VWS Westgarth supplied the sulphate removal package. Its scope consists of a water injection plant in a single lift module arrangement including sulphate removal membrane system, fresh water membrane system, chemical dosing systems, control valves and instrumentation.

Girassol
The Girassol offloading.	The Girassol FPSO.

Greater Plutonio, Block 18,
The Greater Plutonio accumulation lies in 1,200m to 1,500m of water. Its development involves the use of subsea wells tied back to a single spread moored FPSO facility.	The deepwater drillship Pride Angola was used to drill the discovery wells.	Greater Plutonio field development layout.
The Greater Plutonio FPSO is an 'all-electric' vessel with high energy efficiency.

Guendalina Gas Field
The Guendalina gas field lies 16 miles offshore Ravenna, Italy, in the Adriatic Sea.	Operator Eni holds an 80% share in the Guendalina gas field.	Production from the Guendalina field is expected to start in June 2011.

Jubilee Field
Kosmos is operator of the West Cape Three Points Block offshore Ghana where the company discovered the Jubilee field.	Kosmos at the Jubilee field.	Kosmos used the Songa Saturn drillship to conduct successful drillstem tests of the Mahogany-2 appraisal well offshore Ghana.
The Mahogany-2 appraisal well in the Jubilee field.

Kizomba Deepwater Project
Kizomba A extended leg TLP leaving Rotterdam. © Gerben van den Bosch.	The consortium is operated by ExxonMobil's subsidiary Esso Exploration Angola and includes Agip Angola, BP Exploration and Statoil.	Kizomba A extended leg TLP showing the side leg supports. © Gerben van den Bosch.
Kizomba A undergoing seafastening. © Gerben van den Bosch.	Kizomba lies in Block 15, among some of the first trenches of deepwater acreage offered by the Angolan Government.	Dockwise's vessel moving the TLP. © Gerben van den Bosch.
The design for Kizomba B essentially duplicates Kizomba A. © Gerben van den Bosch.

Mafumeira Norte
The port of Lobito, where the Mafumeira Norte platform was built.	An oil derrick.	25km pipes were laid to connect the Mafumeira Norte field to the KWIP.

Majnoon Field
Majnoon is located in southern Iraq, near to the Tigris river.	The state of Iraq, Shell and Petronas hold stakes in the project.	The new Shell and Petrobas joint venture is expected to increase production to 1.8 million barrels of oil per day from 45,000bopd.

Mossel Bay,
The control buoy.	The concrete gravity base.	The FA platform.
The Castoro Otto.	The South Seas Driller.	The FA platform that receives hydrocarbons.
The onshore reception facilities.

Okume Complex

Pazflor Field Development
Pazflor is located in deepwater offshore Angola block 17, 150km (93 miles) off the coast of Angola and 40km (25 miles) north-east of Dalia.	The overall Pazflor development currently envisages 49 subsea wells connected via subsea production, injection lines and risers to a spread moored FPSO.	There will be three subsea separation systems provided by FMC following the company's success on Tordis.
Deep Blue, one of Technip's installation vessels.	Deep Pioneer is the other of technip's installation vessels.

Rosa Field
3D image of the Rosa field reservoir.	The Rosa field drilling work was carried out using the ultra deepwater drillship Saipem.	The Saipem vessel was used to install the manifolds for the Rosa field.
The base of the Rosa field's riser tower.	Angola concessions map showing block 17.

Sanha / Bomboco Development
The Sanha LPG FPSO is the first floating production facility to combine all LPG processing and export functions onboard the same unit.	The Sanha development lies in Block 0, offshore Cabinda in West Africa, in 75m.	Mixed LPG will be fractionated onboard the FPSO to separate butane and propane products.
The butane and propane products will be chilled for storage and periodically transferred to LPG export tankers for shipment and sale.	The Sanha LPG FPSO has an LPG storage capacity of 135,000m³ in six tanks and a daily processing capacity 6,000m³.

Scarab and Saffron Gas Fields,
The Seaway Falcon, which will be used for installing infield lines.	The Seaway Legend, which will be used for manifold installation, pipeline burial, survey and hydrotest work.	Location map showing the concession area.
The LB200 will install the main 20 and 22 in line to shore.	Field layout schematic showing interfield lines and umbilicals.

Sequoia Project
Gas is transported to the onshore Egyptian LNG (ELNG) plant via existing 24in pipelines from Rashid and the WDDM.	Most of the marine activities were carried out by Saipem’s FDS vessel using J-lay and S-lay to match the operational environment.	The Sequoia subsea development is located 130km northeast of Alexandria.

Songo Songo Gas Development and Power-Generation Project
One of the producing Songo Songo gas wells, with Orca Exploration seismic programme survey vessel Geomariner in background.	Aerial view of the Songo Songo gas plant.	The power plant.

South Pars,
The Iranian South Pars field is the northern extension of Qatar's giant North Field.	Fabrication of the phase I platform.	Phase I's $770m development is operated by Petropars.
Schematic of phases II and III.	The SPD wellhead platform operated by TotalFinaElf.	Schematic of phase VI, operated by Statoil.
The no3 treatment train at Assaluyeh.

Usan Field
Discovered in 2002, Usan lies in licence block OPL 222, around 100km South of Port Harcourt.	The offshore installation will be carried out by the highly specialised vessels Saipem FDS (pictured) and Saipem 3000.	Usan fabrication will be carried out locally in Nigeria, mainly in Saipem's Rumuolumeni yard.
Saipem was awarded the contract for the Umbilicals, Flowlines, Risers and Oil Loading Terminal (UFR and OLT) activities.	Proven and probable reserves of Usan have been put at in excess of 500 million barrels of oil.

Xikomba Oil Field
The Xikomba FPSO is a conversion of the former VLCC tanker Mosocean.	Xikomba FPSO has been developed by subsea wells tied back to a combined floating production and storage ship.	The subsea facilities are connected to the surface by two 10in production risers. There are also two 8in water injection risers, an 8in gas injection riser and three umbilicals, which enter the FPSO at the swivel stack in the bow.
The FPSO Xikomba has a deadweight of 257,000dwt and a storage capacity of 1,700bbl.	Xikomba is located in the northwest corner of Block 15, approximately 230 miles northwest of Luanda.	Xikomba FPSO owned by Sonasing (a joint venture between SBM and Sonangol) leaves port.
In total, the processing facilities have a capacity of 20 million ft³/d, a water injection capacity of 90bbl/d and a gas injection capacity of 95 million ft³/d.

Yoho Oil Field
ExxonMobil are employing a temporary FPSO vessel as the basis for the initial stages of the development.	The FPSO Falcon and turret.	Underside of the FPSO turret.
View of the FPSO Falcon undergoing conversion.	Artist's impression of the completed FPSO Falcon.	Close-up of the FPSO stack.

Zafiro,
A modified buoy sent to the Zafiro field to replace the original flare buoy, lost during installation.	Schematic of the Zafiro field layout.	DLB Polaris lifting a total of 12,000t of process modules, for boosting the Zafiro producers capacity to 80,000b/d.
When the new process modules were installed, no production shutdown was required.	The Zafiro Producer has an 80,000b/d process plant, a 40MMSCFD gas flare capacity and storage for 1.7MMBBL of oil.	The reel-lay vessel Norlift transferred from the North Sea to lay 6- and 8-inch lines, to tie back deep water wells on the Zafiro field.
Schematic of subsea wellhead layout.

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