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Modec and SBM set to battle for Liza FPSO
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Modec and SBM set to battle for Liza FPSO
Extracted from Upstream’s May 6th edition.
06 May 2016 00:00 GMT
US supermajor expected to issue invitations to tender soon to design and build floater for fast-tracked deep-water project off Guyana
EXXONMOBIL has shortlisted Japanese floater specialist Modec International and Netherlands-based rival SBM Offshore to compete in an upcoming tender covering front-end engineering and design studies for a maiden floating production, storage and offloading vessel to be deployed at its deep-water Liza project off Guyana.
The US supermajor has kept a tight lid on the project and is proceeding cautiously as it waits on appraisal results.
However, a formal invitation to tender is expected shortly, with a six-month FEED targeted to begin in late summer or early autumn, Upstream understands.
Afterwards, a 24-month engineering, procurement and construction contract is in the frame.
“ExxonMobil is really fast-tracking Liza, with a potential pilot FPSO award less than two years after the first oil discovery, which suggests they made a big find in Guyana,” said a source.
“It is rare for a company to move that fast, but there has been a few similar cases in the past, including Tullow Oil with Jubilee in Ghana and Petrobras with Tupi in Brazil.”
The pair of FPSO contenders won out over a fuller field of five bidders that had also included BW Offshore, Bluewater and Saipem.
Various options are being worked on, with conversion work being studied in Singapore and China.
Guyana is seen as having broad potential over and above this first pilot FPSO requirement, which is one of a scant number of greenfield opportunities presently on the horizon for contractors. Nearly “everybody” will remain in pursuit of the broader opportunity, said an industry source.
On the subsea side, contractors are focusing efforts on at least two packages.
Subsea production system players see an opportunity to supply up to 16 trees to the Liza project over the next two years with FMC, OneSubsea and GE and Aker Solutions all expected to chase the work.
All the major subsea umbilical, riser and flowline players — including Technip, Subsea 7, McDermott, Emas Chiyoda and Saipem will be likely to eye the other main subsea package.
While the current bid process centres on an early production unit, ExxonMobil is said to be intent on exploring the full potential range of floating production options in the promising play, with further exploration drilling potentially driving how the field development takes shape.
There has been talk that later development phases could support a larger-sized FPSO of similar size to those used in Brazil where capacities of 150,000 to 180,000 barrels per day are now common.
However, much is said to hinge on the outcomes of drilling taking place this year, with ExxonMobil targeting up to four wells on its Stabroek block.
Prospects north of the original wildcat could have the potential to significantly add to the resource, which ExxonMobil has billed as the industry’s biggest find of 2015.
The original Liza wildcat hit more than 295 feet of high-quality sandstone reservoirs and was drilled to 17,825 feet by the Transocean drillship Deepwater Champion.
The drill site lies about 192 kilometres off Guyana in 5719 feet of water.
ExxonMobil also has plenty of work ahead of it in reviewing the results of its Liza-2 appraisal well, which is understood to be at total depth.
The partners located the well on the structure’s flank and planned to sidetrack it back towards the centre of the reservoir for a production test.
US partner Hess said drillship Stena Carron will then move about 32 kilometres north-west on the Stabroek block, where the partners are targeting “look-alike” structures on prospects tentatively named Skipjack and Payara.
A well on the next prospect could be spudded as early as next month.
ExxonMobil operates Stabroek on a 45% stake, with Hess holding 30% and China National Offshore Oil Corporation-owned Nexen on 25%.