Woodside Energy, an Australian petroleum exploration and production company, has commissioned a pre-lay survey for the deepwater Sangomar field development off the coast of Senegal, ahead of the company’s subsea installation campaign. Phase 1 of the Sangomar oil field development is nearing completion at 48%, with the first oil expected in 2023. The pre-lay survey can assess the conditions of the offshore field’s seabed and provide the exact route for where the pipeline should be constructed by using either rock support or trench intervention activities.
The field development will comprise a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit, 23 subsea wells, and supporting infrastructure. The FPSO vessel is to be moored at a water depth of approximately 780 meters. The vessel is capable of processing 100,000 barrels of crude oil per day, 130 million standard cubic feet of gas per day, and will have a minimum capacity of 1.3 million barrels of crude oil.
Woodside Energy CEO Meg O’Neill highlighted, in the company’s Fourth Quarter Report, that, “Significant progress (has been) made at the Sangomar Field Development Phase 1 in Senegal, with equipment continuing to arrive in- country ahead of the subsea-installation campaign, scheduled to commence in the second quarter of this year (2022).”
Sangomar, Sangomar Deep Blocks, and the Sangomar Field Development are located 100 kilometres south of Dakar, Senegal’s capital. They cover a total area of 7,490 kilometres in the Senegalese portion of Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea-Conakry Basin (MSGBC).
Woodside Energy, in collaboration with Senegal’s state oil corporation, Societé des Petroles du Sénégal, will play a key role in its development.
