LLOG Exploration Co. LLC, Covington, La., has let a contract to Acteon Group Ltd.’s InterMoor to fabricate 12 mooring piles for the permanent mooring of the Salamanca floating production system (FPS) offshore US Gulf of Mexico.
LLOG previously awarded the design of the 80-ft long and 16-ft OD piles, weighing over 150 tons each, to InterMoor in fourth-quarter 2022. The mooring piles will be fabricated at InterMoor’s Morgan City, La., facility.
The column-stabilized Salamanca FPS will sit in Keathley Canyon Block 689 in 6,400 ft of water to tap the Lower Tertiary Leon and Castile discoveries, LLOG said in May 2022.
The platform will have processing capacity of 60,000 b/d of oil, 25,000 b/d of water, and 40 MMscfd of natural gas. Three initial development wells are planned, two on Leon field and one on Castile field. Initial production from the joint development is expected in mid-2025.
