Saxi-Batuque Oil Field

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Summary Information

  • Operator: Exxon
  • Country: Angola
  • Location: Block 15
  • Production start: 2008
  • Partners: Exxon - 40%, BP - 26.67%, Eni - 20%, Statoil - 13.33%
  • Type: Oil / Gas
  • Estimated Reserves:
  • Production Volume:

+++ Description

  • The field is part of the Kizomba C Project, along with the Mondo Oil Field
  • The Saxi-Batuque project will be developed using a the Saxi-Batuque FPSO host with tie back of two drill centres for Batuque and two drill centres for Saxi.

+++ Contractors

  • **Keppel:** FPSO conversion
  • **Subsea 7:** Design, pipe fabrication and installation of 16 steel flowlines and their accompanying flowline terminations. In total, there will be 50km of flowlines ranging between 6” and 10” in diameter.

+++ History

  • 2000 - Saxi oil field discovered
  • 2006 - Subsea 7 awarded flowlines contract
  • 2008 - FPSO conversion completed

+++ Geology

+++ Links

  1. Eighth find in Angola block
  2. Angola Contract Award for Subsea 7
  3. Keppel surpasses 11 million safe man-hours on two FPSOs for SBM and ExxonMobil