Project Profile
Location: 60 kilometres distance from the shore, Mauritania
Reserves: 900 billion cubic feet of gas
Capacity: Gas central processing facility with 60 million cubic feet per day (cf/d) capacity
Length: 75 kilometres gas export pipeline out of which 60 kilometres should be subsea
Water Depth: 300 metres
In Mauritania the Banda gas field is estimated to contain only 900 billion cubic feet of gas but is located to only 60 kilometres distance from the shore. Tullow is exploring Mauritania offshore water since 2001. After the first discovery of the Chinguetti oil field in 2001, Banda came up as non-associated gas field in 2002. In 2011, Tullow and its partners Premier Oil, Kufpec and Petronas, signed a new production sharing contract (PSC) C-10 with the Mauritanian Government to replace the previous PSC Area A and Area B and to give Tullow the operatorship with 66.83% of the working interests. In 2012, Tullow could declare the Banda gas field valid for commercial operations based on a gas-to-power concept. Mauritania is running short of electrical power, especially to develop its mining sector, thus giving the opportunity to Tullow to monetise its natural gas from Banda.
With the gas field lying by 300 metres water depth, the Tullow Banda gas-to-power concept is based on a subsea production system, feeding a transportation pipeline to shore where the gas will be treated to, then, supply a gas-fired power plant. In 2012, Tullow appointed Xodus to perform Banda FEED work based on this gas-to-power concept. On the upstream and midstream parts of the Banga gas-to-power project, Xodus FEED work is planning to include:
- Four production wells driven from shore by an umbilical
- A 75 kilometres gas export pipeline out of which 60 kilometres should be subsea.
- A gas central processing facility with 60 million cubic feet per day (cf/d) capacity
Operators:
Tullow Oil: Operator with 66.83% interest
Premier Oil
Kufpec
Petronas
Contractors:
Samling Resources
Xodus Group: FEED contract based on this gas-to-power concept
Subcontractors:
PBJV Group (Barakah Offshore Petroleum’s wholly-owned subsidiary): Decommissioning work. (June, 2017)