Offshore staff
PARIS, France — TotalEnergies is forging ahead with an $850 million subsea tieback of the Begonia oil field offshore Angola, and it will also participate in the country’s first offshore non-associated natural gas development.
Begonia, in the company’s "golden" Block 17/06, is 150 km offshore. It will be developed via five wells tied back to the Pazflor FPSO, adding 30,000 bbl/d to the facility’s production following commissioning in late 2024.
This is the company’s second project on the block to employ a standardized subsea production system. TechnipFMC is supplying the first for CLOV Phase 3, under a contract awarded earlier this year.
The standardized design is said to offer cost savings of up to 20% and shorter lead times for delivery.
About 70% of the Begonia’s 1.3 million man-hours of work will take place in Angola.
TotalEnergies operates Block 17/06 with a 30% interest, in partnership with affiliates of Sonangol P&P (30%), SSI (27.5%), ACREP/Somoil (5%), Falcon Oil (5%) and PTTEP (2.5%).
Eni is leading the newly sanctioned Non-Associated Gas 1 (NAG1) project, under which gas from the Maboqueiro and Quiluma fields will supply the onshore Angola LNG complex.
The project includes two offshore wellhead platforms, an onshore gas processing plant and a connection to Angola LNG for marketing of condensates and gas via LNG cargoes The development also will improve availability of gas for Angola’s own industrial development purposes.
Project execution activities will start this year with first gas planned in mid-2026, building to 330 MMcf/d at peak.
The Angola LNG plant is in Soyo, Zaire Province, and has a current treatment capacity of about 353 Bcf/year of feed gas and a liquefaction capacity of 5.2 MM metric tons/year of LNG.
According to Eni, the support provided by Angola’s Ministry of Mineral Resources, Petroleum and Gas, and the National Concessionaire (ANPG), was critical to unlocking this new phase of Angolan offshore gas development. A key enabler was the creation of a legal and fiscal regime applicable to the upstream activities and sale of natural gas in the country.
The New Gas Consortium partners are Eni (25.6%, operator), Chevron affiliate CABGOC (31%), Sonangol P&P (19.8%), bp (11.8%) and TotalEnergies (11.8%).
In March 2022, Eni and bp agreed to form a joint venture company, Azule Energy, combining their businesses in Angola. Azule Energy will guarantee operatorship of the Maboqueiro/Qiluma project after the transaction’s completion date.
07.28.2022
