Eni SPA has started production from the East Hub development project on deepwater Block 15/06 offshore Angola.
Production is taking place through the Armada Olombendo floating production, storage, and offloading vessel, whose capacities total 80,000 b/d of oil and 3.4 million cu m/day of gas. With 9 wells and 4 manifolds in 450 m of water, the FPSO will bring into production Cabaca South East field, 350 km northwest of Luanda and 130 km west of Soyo.
The East Hub project will add to production from the existing West Hub project covering Sangos, Cinguvu, and Mpungi fields, where another FPSO, the N’Goma, is operating. Production from West Hub started in 2014 (OGJ Online, Dec. 8, 2014). In total, Block 15/06 will reach a peak production of 150,000 bo/d this year.