Tullow Oil's TEN project offshore Ghana is ramping up towards offshore installation activities this month and is on budget and on track for first oil mid-2016, the firm said today.

The TEN project, named after the Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomme fields it will develop, is a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel development in the Deepwater Tano contract area. Consent for the project was granted by Ghana's government in June 2013, based on plateau production via 24 wells 1500m water depth.

In 2Q 2015, the firm ran the first two of 10 well completions on the project, the TEN floating production, storage and offloading vessel turret was installed, and the first in-country fabrication works were made ready for the start of the offshore installation campaign in mid-July.

In addition, specialist subsea manifolds and umbilicals from the US have been made ready for transport to Ghana.

The project sits close to the border with Ivory Coast, an area subject to a border dispute. Tullow says that following a 25 April ruling from the Special Chamber of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on Provisional Measures, discussions are ongoing with the Government of Ghana on their implementation and no impact is expected on project activity to first oil.

Tullow also says work is ongoing to incorporate the Mahogany, Teak and Alaska finds into its Greater Jubilee Full Field Development Plan, which the partnership on the Jubilee field plans to submit to the Ghanian government by year-end. Jubilee, another FPSO development, which came on stream in 2010.

Source: www.oedigital.com

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