Woodside Energy Ltd. has let a contract to Wood PLC related to the Sangomar development, offshore Senegal.
Wood will implement a combined production management system (PMS) and virtual metering system (VMS) at the floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) control room and Woodside's onshore offices in Senegal and Perth.
The systems will provide real-time monitoring of the production system together with decision support for complex operations and advanced surveillance for hydrate and wax management. The PMS is expected to ensure continuity of production and minimized flaring, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and methane intensity. The VMS is intended to minimize the number of subsea flow meters required for development.
The contract follows Wood’s ongoing work executing flow assurance design analysis for the FPSO development.
The $4.2 billion Sangomar development achieved FID in January (OGJ Online, Jan. 15, 2020). The concept is a stand-alone FPSO connected to 23 subsea wells and supporting subsea infrastructure.
The FPSO is expected to have a production capacity of 100,000 b/d of oil and will process the oil for direct offloading to export markets via tankers. First oil is targeted for 2023.
Senegal is estimated to contain over 450 billion cu m of reserves.
