Ghana: Jubilee FPSO hooked up to gas infrastructure

The connection between the Jubilee floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel and the Atuabo gas plant was completed on 7 November, allowing gas to be exported to the plant and commissioning to start. Upstream operator Tullow Oil said the plant was expected to become fully operational towards year-end, which would allow gas to be evacuated from the FPSO and significantly reduce the need for re-injection. “However, due to the substantial quantity of gas injected into the reservoir since first oil in 2010, it is anticipated that the increase of Jubilee oil production will be gradual and is expected to take until Q4 2015 to reach the facility capacity of 120,000 b/d,” Tullow said in an interim management statement (IMS) on 12 November.