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Oil and gas, access to energy and economic development.
Oil and gas, access to energy and economic development.
Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) is an integrated deepwater project in Ghana split into two stages: the development of first oil, then gas deposits. The operator is Eni Ghana Exploration and Production (44.44 per cent), along with its partners Vitol Ghana Upstream (35.56 per cent) and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (20 per cent). OCTP is around 60km (37 miles) from Ghana’s western coast and boasts approximately 40bn m3 of non-associated gas reserves and 500m barrels of oil. The project is a good example of step-by-step development, combining the development of oil and gas fields in two stages.
The Sankofa and Gye Nyame fields are accessed through wells and systems positioned on the seabed, connected through special pipes to the FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading) ship. Non-associated gas will be treated and transported through a 63km-long dedicated gas pipe to the Sanzule onshore plant. There it will be compressed and distributed to the Ghanaian domestic grid. The oil, meanwhile, is treated on the FPSO, then shipped via oil tanker for sale on the international market. The OCTP development project is concrete evidence of our dual-flag approach: 49 per cent of the contracts were awarded to local companies; roughly 2,300 Ghanaians are currently employed on the various projects and in operational work; and every year $1.3m is invested in scholarships and training.
OCTP is the only deep offshore non-associated gas development in Sub-Saharan Africa entirely destined to domestic consumption and it will guarantee at least 15 years of stable, reliable, affordable gas supplies to Ghana.
The OCTP project in Ghana
The OCTP project in Ghana
The OCTP project in Ghana
The OCTP project in Ghana
The OCTP project in Ghana
The OCTP project in Ghana
Claudio Descalzi
The FPSO John Agyekum Kufuor set off from Singapore on 28 February, 2017 and, after a 40-day journey, reached Ghana on 10 April. This floating unit is an excellent example of how Eni converts existing assets: a petrol tanker was completely revamped to create it, saving a lot of time and money compared to building a brand-new FPSO.
Eni launched production of the Integrated Oil and Gas Development Project in the OCTP block in May 2017, just two-and-a-half years after the project received the green light – a record time-to-market, three months ahead of the development plan. The development comprises the Sankofa Main, Sankofa East and Gye-Nyame fields, which in total have about 770m barrels of oil equivalent in place, comprising 500m barrels of oil and 270m barrels of oil equivalent of non-associated gas (about 40bn m3). The project also includes the development of gas fields, exclusively for the domestic market.
The Sankofa oil field was found deeper beneath the seabed after the discovery of the gas field, using technology that investigates the subsoil. Advanced seismic imaging and reservoir modelling allows the subsoil to be reproduced in extremely high definition, thereby helping to speed up development times. This technology is based on the computational capacity of the Green Data Center in Ferrera Erbognone (Pavia, north-west Italy), home to Eni's IT processing systems, including HPC4, which can carry out 22.4 million billion operations a second.
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