Oil production from Ghana’s Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) is on course to start in the third quarter of this year, as work on the field progresses steadily.
Currently, work on the TEN Project located in the Deepwater Tano is over 90 per cent complete, Tullow Oil, lead operator of the field, has said in a statement.
“The TEN Project is now over 90 per cent complete and first oil remains on target for July/August 2016,” a trading update from the company said on April 28.
Seen as Ghana’s next big offshore project, the TEN fields are located in the Deepwater Tano licence which covers an area of more than 800 sqkm, and lies around 20km west of Tullow’s Jubilee field.
The TEN project is expected to deliver first oil in 2016, with a plateau production rate of 80,000 barrels of oil per day.
Future development of gas resources at TEN is anticipated following the commencement of oil start-up.
The Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel for the project arrived in Ghanaian waters in March. It was officially named by the First Lady, Mrs Lordina Mahama, at a ceremony in Singapore in September 2015.
It was named in memory of the late President Atta Mills who oversaw first oil from Ghana’s Jubilee Field in 2010.
“It has subsequently being attached to nine anchor piles that will maintain its position above the oil fields. These 21-metre high steel cylinders were built in Ghana by Group Five Construction Ghana Limited,” Tullow said.
Partners in the TEN project are Tullow, Kosmos Energy, Anadarko Petroleum, Petro SA and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC).