Eni brings Ghana’s OCTP project on stream

MILAN, May 22, 2017 – Eni has achieved first production from the Offshore Cape Three points project off Ghana, the company announced on Saturday.

Output is being sourced from 18 underwater wells across the Sankofa Main, Sankofa East and Gye-Nyame fields, which feed the John Agyekum Kufour floating production, storage and offloading vessel.

The FPSO is tied back via a 63-kilometre pipeline to the onshore receiving facilities near Sanzule, where some 5.1 mcm (180 mcf) of natural gas is delivered to the national grid on a daily basis.

“Starting production only two and a half years after the approval of the Development Plan is an extraordinary result and a reason for great pride,” Eni CEO Claudi Descalzi said in a press release.

Eni is joined in the development by Vitol (35.56%) and Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (20%).

The Ghana ramp-up follows the start of production at Eni’s Jankrik development last Monday. The Indonesia gas project got underway one a month ahead of schedule.

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