Kaombo Twin FPSOs

Summary Information

• Name: Kaombo Norte and Kaombo Sul
• Field: Kaombo Oil and Gas Fields
• Country: Angola
• Ownership: Total
• Website:
• Field Operated By:
• Capacity: 115,000 bpd
• Year of Completion: 2018/2019

Brief Description

• The two converted FPSO units, each have an oil treating capacity of 115,000 barrels per day, a water injection capacity of 200,000 barrels per day, a 100 million scfd gas compression capacity and a storage capacity of 1.7 million barrels of oil.
• The vessels that were converted were the VLCC, Olympia and VLCC, Antartica

Contractors

• **Saipem:**
  • Engineering, procurement, conversion of the tankers, fabrication and integration of the topsides of the FPSO units and the installation of the mooring systems
  • Hook-up, commissioning and operations start-up
  • Seven years of operation and maintenance services for the FPSO units.
• **Sembawang Shipyard:**
  • Refurbishment of the VLCCs, construction engineering, the fabrication of flare, helideck, upper turret and access structure, integration of the topsides modules, lower turret components, and pre-commissioning of the FPSOs
• **Alderley:** Design, engineer and fabricate Produced Water Treatment Packages

Status

• In operation

History

• 2014 - Saipem awarded engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning contract
• 2018 - Kaombo Norte began production
• 2019 - Kaombo Sul came onstream

Other Information

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Links

1. Saipem: awarded FPSO contracts in Angola worth more than $4 billion
2. Sembcorp Marine's Sembawang Shipyard Secures Contract Worth About S$600 Million From Saipem SA for the Conversion of Two FPSOs
3. Awarded FPSO Produced Water Treatment Packages

https://abarrelfull.blogspot.com/2023/01/angolas-major-deep-offshore-kaombo.html Angola’s Major Deep Offshore Kaombo Project Comes On Stream]

1. Angola: Total launches full-field production on Kaombo with the start-up of the second FPSO