Offshore staff

(West Africa) - Star Deep Water Petroleum Ltd., an affiliate of Chevron Corp., has awarded Kongsberg a contract for performing a cargo offloading dynamic simulation study for the Agbami project offshore Nigeria.

Kongsberg will establish an offloading and export dynamic simulator model based upon the current marine and offloading system specification. The model will be used to for evaluate the offloading and export system design. The model will be configured using Kongsberg's dynamic process simulation tool called Assett.

Agbami field, located in 1,500-m water depth, is about 112 km offshore Nigeria. It is spread across two blocks, OMLs 127 & 128.

A 300-m newly built FPSO vessel will be used to produce the field. The vessel will have processing capability for 250,000 b/d oil, 450 MMcf/d gas and storage of 2.15 MMbbl.

Topsides will weigh 38,000 tons. The field will be developed via 38 subsea production, gas injection and water injection wells.

11/08/05