Talos Energy lets subsea contract for Sunspear GOM tieback

April 12, 2024
Talos Energy Inc. has let a contract to Subsea 7 SA for the Sunspear development in Green Canyon Block 78 in the Gulf of Mexico.

Talos Energy Inc. has let a contract to Subsea 7 SA for the Sunspear development in Green Canyon Block 78 in the Gulf of Mexico.

The project involves subsea tie back of one production well at Sunspear to the Prince platform, 12 km to the north (OGJ Online, Sept. 4, 2023). Subsea7 will install the flowline and related subsea equipment in 500 m water depth.

Subsea7’s Houston office will oversee project management and installation engineering, with offshore work scheduled to begin later this year.

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Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).