Vega Oil Field

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Summary Information

  • Operator: Energean
  • Country: Italy
  • Location: Sicilian Channel
  • Production start: 1987
  • Partners: Edison with a 60% working interest (Eni is the partner with 40%
  • Type: Oil / Gas
  • Estimated Reserves:
  • Production Volume:

Description

  • Vega field is located in the Sicilian Channel, 20 km south of Pozzallo (RG).
  • The Vega cluster consists of Vega A, the field currently in production, and the yet to be developed Vega B field.
  • Vega A was developed with 24 wells, a platform located in 130 metres of water designed to process 60.000 barrels of oil per day and a floating storage and offloading tanker (Leonis) with a capacity of 110,000 tons to temporary store production.
  • The crude oil is transported from the Leonis to refineries by tankers shuttles.
  • The Vega B development project which represents a further potential to complete the full exploitation of the production lease is pending.

Contractors

  • **Tecon:** Well-head and Separation Modules weighing 1100t and 1300t - Structural basic and de-tail design
  • **ICS:** Installation
  • **Micoperi:** Clamps and J-tube installation on Vega A, clamps and risers installation on SPM

History

  • 1987 - First production
  • 2019 - Energean acquired a share of the field from Edison

Geology

Links

  1. Exploration and production, Edison
  2. Offshore Platforms in Italy
  3. Tecon Platform References
  4. ABB FPSO References
  5. Micoperi Offshore And Platform References
  6. FoundOcean Europe Subsea References
  7. Edison announces the signing of the agreement with Energean Oil and Gas to sell the 100% of Edison Exploration and Production (E&P) and its subsidiaries in the hydrocarbons exploration and production business. The signing follows the approval of the transaction by the Edison Board of Directors on July 3, 2019.