Production starts at oil field off Ghana

Output at the newly operational Jubilee oil and gas field off Ghana is expected to reach up to 120,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil during the first half of 2011.

The first tanker of oil was expected to leave the field, in the Gulf of Guinea, in January, with production having started in December 2010 – 42 months after the discovery of oil and gas in 2007.

The accelerated timetable represents one of the shortest cycles for any FPSO-based oil project of this scale in such deep water, according to Kosmos Energy LLC, a private company based in Dallas which is also the project’s technical operator for development.

The next phase of development is likely to include infill wells, which will not require installation of other subsea facilities.

Jubilee field is on the deepwater Tano Block and extends into the West Cape Three Points Block and plans are now under way for the development of additional discoveries on those blocks, Kosmos has revealed.

Plans are under way for the appraisal and development of additional discoveries on those blocks, Kosmos said.

The turret-moored FPSO, the Kwame Nkrumah, is capable of processing 120,000 bpd and 160 MMscfd of gas, while also storing up to 1.6 million bbl of crude.

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