ExxonMobil is on track to triple production capacity at Stabroek Block
– as Unity Liza 220,000 bpd is nearing completion
Liza’s unity is nearing completion at Keppel Shipyard in Singapore.8
Kaieteur News – ExxonMobil and its production partners in the Stabroek Block are on track to triple Guyana’s offshore production capacity as its second Floating Production, Storage and Unloading Vessel (FPSO) – Unity Liza – arrives ended.
The massive 220,000 barrels a day (bpd) FPSO is under construction at Keppel shipyard in Singapore with SBM Offshore announcing on Tuesday that the FPSO Liza Unity top lift campaign has recently been completed.
The ship, scheduled to arrive in Guyana as early as the middle of the year, is expected to be manufactured in the Stabroek Block and will bring the country’s total capacity to around 340,000 considering the 120,000 bpd Liza Destiny – operating is currently offshore Guyana.
The Dutch shipbuilding company, in making its announcement, stated, “thanks to the efforts of the integrated team, over 26,000 tonnes of summits have been safely put in place at Keppel Shipyard in Singapore since the ship came out of a dry dock in October last year. ”
SBM Offshore said in its announcement that all efforts are now focused on moving forward and completing the integration activities and gradually ramping up the commissioning activities aboard the ship.
According to reports, Unity Liza is the first FPSO built under SB4 Offshore’s Fast4Ward design, which involves the use of a new standard built-in multi-purpose shell along with several modules on top of the standard.
The hull was built in China, with roadside modules built by Keppel and Dyna-Mac.
Once completed, the FPSO is expected to sail to Guyana, where it will be deployed as part of the second phase of ExaMobil’s Liza field development.
The Liza Unity FPSO is also designed to have an associated gas treatment capacity of 400 million cubic feet per day, and a water injection capacity of 250,000 barrels per day.
The vessel moored at a water depth of about 1,600 meters and will be able to store approximately two million barrels of crude oil.
According to the company, “the project continues to target first oil in 2022 in accordance with client planning.”
Once online, the FPSO will become the second FPSO in production in Guyana, after the Liza Destiny FPSO began producing oil in December 2019.
The Destiny Liza was also refurbished by SBM Offshore, which transformed the storage capacity of a million Very Raw Shuttle (VLCC) barrels into FPSO.
The Dutch company was awarded a contract in October last year with Stabroek Block Operator – ExxonMobil and its Guyana partners – to build FPSO for what will be Guyara’s third offshore development in Payara.
Under the contract, SBM Offshore will construct, install, and then lease and operate the FPSO-named Prosperity at Guyana’s offshore Payara project for a period of up to two years.
The ownership and operation of the FPSO will transfer to ExxonMobil, which operates the Stabroek offshore block in Guyana, along with consortium partners Hess Corporation and China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC). ”
The Prosperity Boom is said to use a design that largely emulates Liza’s Unity FPSO design, with oil first expected in 2024.
ExxonMobil has so far indicated intentions to have six FPSOs producing from the Stabroek Block by 2027.