Shearwater set to make debut in Ghana after Tullow award
Tullow Oil has awarded Shearwater Geoservices a critical contract to better understand how its deep water Jubilee oilfield offshore Ghana is performing.
Jubilee is Tullow’s core asset, with the operator bringing online its $1 billion Jubilee Southeast project a year ago as a subsea tieback to the Kwame Nkrumah floating production, storage and offloading vessel.
In addition, six months ahead of schedule, it recently completed a 21-well development drilling campaign at the field which is currently producing about 90,000 barrels per day of oil.
Norway-based Shearwater has been contracted to undertake a 4D seismic monitoring contract that is due to run for two months in early 2025, but has not identified which of its vessels will carry out the work.
Tullow said last month that this 4D data will update its “view of the sub-surface, support drill candidate selection and optimise well placement ahead of a 2025-2026 drilling programme”.
The operator added that between now and the start of the next drilling campaign it will integrate the results of the just-completed well programme and optimise pressure support at Jubilee in order to maximise production and minimise decline.
This operation represents the first time the contractor has operated in Ghanaian waters and will be working with a local company called Destra Energy and “will include considerable local content participation”.
According to Irene Basili, chief executive of Shearwater: “Our leading towed streamer technology is an ideal fit for the Jubilee field, enabling repeatable surveys to provide Tullow and partners with high-quality data in support of better-informed reservoir optimisation.”
Credit Source: www.upstreamonline.com
