Project Profile
Value: US$3,100 million
Location: 350 km north of Luanda, offshore Angola
Production: ~100,000 bopd
Water Depth: 1399 metres (4590ft)
Area: 2,984 sq km
Start-up Year: 2014
West Hub, located at block 15/06 offshore Angola, began production in 2014. The project, in 4590ft of water, will use SBM Offshore’s FPSO Xikomba, which was under contract with ExxonMobil offshore Angola from 2003 through 2011. To prepare for installation at West Hub, the FPSO went to the Paenal yard in Angola for an upgrade and will be renamed FPSO N\'goma. When delivered in 2014, the FPSO is expected to serve the Mpungi, Sangos and Cinguvu discoveries under a 12-year lease and operate agreement. West Hub will be developed with 21 development wells. Production start up occurred in December 2014. Future activities at the field will involve the 2012 Vandumbu and 2013 Mpungi North discove
The exploration well called Sangos 1 has led to the discovery and has been drilled at a water depth of 1,349 metres and to a total depth of 3,343 metres. Sangos 1 has discovered an oil mineralisation column 127 metres high, located within sands from the Miocenic Age with high permeability; the well produced excellent quality oil (29 degrees API). Block 15/06 is located within the Lower Congo Basin, off the coast of Angola. It covers approximately 2,984 square kilometres in water depths ranging between 300 and 1,600 metres and is located approximately 350 kilometres north of Luanda offshore Angola. The Ngoma-1 well lies around 350km from Luanda and has been drilled in a water depth of 4,662ft (1,421m) to a total depth of 11,100ft (3,383m). The well has encountered an oil column of 417ft. In w016, Eni started production from the West Hub Development Project’s Mpungi field,. The start-up of Mpungi field, which follows the West Hub’s first oil from the Sangos field in November 2014 and the Cinguvu field in early April 2015, ramped-up production to approximately 100,000 barrels of oil per day in the first quarter of 2016.
FMC Technologies has secured a contract to provide subsea multiphase boosting pumps, manifolds, and installation support services for Eni Angola’s Block 15/06 West Hub Development Project located off the coast of Angola.
Operators:
Eni Angola Production B.V.: Operator with 35% interest
Sonangol Sinopec International (SSI) Fifteen Limited: 25% interest
Sonangol (Sociedade Nacional de Combustiveis de Angola): 30% interest
Statoil: 5% interest
Falcon Oil Holding Angola, S.A.: 5% interest
Contractors:
Aker Solutions: Umbilicals contract
Bumi Armada:provide a floating production, storage and offloading vessel for work in Angola, for the chartering, operation and maintenance of an FPSO
Saipem: Drilling using semi-submersible Scarabeo 7
SBM (Single Buoy Moorings): FPSO contract
Porto Amboim Estaleiros Navais Ltda (known as Paenal yard): Fabrication of two of the FPSO’s modules
Technip (through wholly-owned subsidiaries Technip Umbilicals Ltd. and Angoflex Ltda.): Contract to supply umbilicals to the Block 15/06 East Hub Development offshore Angola. The contract covers project management and manufacture of about 15 kilometres of dynamic and static steel tube umbilicals. Technip’s umbilical facility in Lobito, Angola, with support from Technip Umbilicals in Newcastle, UK, will manufacture the umbilicals that are scheduled to be completed in the second half of 2016.
FMC Technologies: Contract to provide subsea multiphase boosting pumps, manifolds, and installation support services. (September, 2016)
Subcontractors:
Dyna-Mac: Topside modules, piperacks and turret for SBM
VWS Westgarth: Design, procurement and supply of equipment and provision of construction technical assistance for single lift module seawater SRP system for SBM