By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Oct. 3 -- BG Tunisia Ltd. let a contract to Petrofac Ltd., Woking, UK, for front-end engineering and design for development of Hasdrubal oil and condensate field off Tunisia.
It plans to develop the field with a normally unattended installation and to produce hydrocarbons through a new multiphase export pipeline to onshore processing facilities that will be built next to the existing BG Tunisia Hannibal plant, Petrofac said.
Hasdrubal facilities will move sales gas to the Tunisian gas grid and condensate to a storage facility along the coast at La Skhira via a new pipeline.
The field, a 1975 Elf discovery initially considered noncommercial, is in the Amilcar exploration permit off Sfax in the Gulf of Gabes, 25 km south of Miskar field, where BG has produced as much as 216 MMscfd of gas and 5,554 b/d of condensate.
BG Tunisia operates the Amilcar permit in partnership with state-owned ETAP. It submitted a development plan for Hasdrubal field last April after drilling a series of appraisal wells.
The first, Hasdrubal-3 drilled in June 1997, flowed 21 MMscfd of gas. Hasdrubal-4, drilled in June 1998, flowed 4.6 MMscfd of gas and 1,800 b/d of oil on a single drillstem test.
Hasdrubal-SW1 in 2002 tested light oil from the Tertiary El Garia formation, confirming an extension of Hasdrubal field to the southwest.
