Girassol Oil Field

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Summary Information

• Operator: Total
• Country: Angola
• Location: Block 17
• Production start: 2001
• Partners: Sonangol
• Type: Girassol Crude Oil
• Estimated Reserves:
• Production Volume:

Description

• Located in water depths of 1,350 metres, 150 kilometres offshore, Girassol was the largest deepwater development to be brought onstream in the world at the time
• The subsea installations consist of 70 km of infield pipelines linked to three riser towers carrying production to a Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) vessel. The FPSO, the largest of its type ever built, is capable of processing 200,000 barrels of oil per day and storing 2 million barrels
• Production from the Rosa Oil Field and Jasmim oil field is tied back to the Girassol FPSO

Contractors

• KWsubsea: Design of a repair system for deep water pipelines
• Phase 2
  • FMC: manufacture and supply of subsea production equipment
  • Technip: project management, engineering, fabrication and installation of umbilicals, interconnecting power cable, recovery and disposal of four rigid spools, installation of eight new flexible spools
  • Aker Solutions: Delivery of two dynamic power and control steel tube umbilicals, one dynamic power cable and ancillary equipment

History

• 1996 - Girassol Oil Field discovered
• 2001 - First production started
• 2003 - Start up of satellite field Jasmim
• 2011 - FMC contract for manufacture and supply of subsea production equipment for Phase 2
• 2012 - Technip awarded Phase 2 EPIC contract

Geology

Links

1. Total, Girassol
2. Serimax Pipeline References
3. KWsubsea Deepwater Project Highlights References
4. Angola's Deepwater Girassol Field Comes on Stream
5. Production Start-up of Jasmim, Offshore Angola
6. Total Awards $80 Million Subsea Production System Option 3 of Girassol Resource Initiative to FMC Technologies
7. Technip awarded substantial contract for the phase 2 of the GirRI project in Angola
8. Aker Solutions wins umbilical contract in West Africa

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