Rosa Oil Field

Summary Information

• Operator: Total
• Country: Angola
• Location: Block 17
• Production start: 2007
• Partners: Total, Sonangol, Exxon, BP, Statoil
• Type: Oil / Gas
• Estimated Reserves:
• Production Volume:

+++ Description

• The Rosa field is located in offshore Angola Block 17, in water depths ranging from approximately 4,200 to 4,900 feet (1,300 to 1,500 meters)
• The Rosa development includes 25 sub-sea wells — 14 producers and 11 injectors — tied back to the Girassol floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, anchored around 15 kilometres away
• On Girassol FPSO, 5,600 tonnes of new equipment was installed to handle Rosa's production

+++ Contractors

• **FMC:** 18 subsea trees, manifolds, production controls and associated systems
• **Saipem:**
  • Engineering, procurement, construction, installation and precommissioning of the Subsea Umbilicals, Risers and Flowlines
  • Offshore drilling contracts
• **Aker Solutions:** Umbilicals

+++ History

• 1998 - Rosa Oil Field discovered
• 2004 - Saipem awarded SURF contract
• 2005 - Saipem awarded drilling contract
• 2006 - FMC awarded subsea contract
• 2007 - First oil produced

+++ Geology

+++ Links

1. Aker Solutions Umbilical References
2. Saipem Africa Pipeline References
3. FMC, Rosa
4. Total Launches Development of Rosa Field in Angolan Deep Offshore
5. Total Amends FMC Technologies Contract for the Rosa Project, Offshore West Africa
6. Saipem won an offshore construction contract amounting approximately to 440 million USD
7. Saipem awarded two new offshore drilling contracts amounting to approximately 190 million USD
8. Production at Rosa