The Fortuna FLNG development will be Africa’s first deepwater independent FLNG project. The project entered FEED in July 2015 and FID is expected once the financing solution has finalised. The field is expected to produce 2.2mmtpa and Ophir currently has an 80% working interest in the Upstream PSC.
Ophir has an 80% operated interest in Block R to the west of Bioko Island in water depths of up to 1,950m.
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Fortuna sits within the Block R licence, offshore Equatorial Guinea which is located in the south-eastern part of the Niger Delta complex. Ophir holds an 80% operated interest in Block R. There have been six commercial discoveries to date in Block R, five of which were made by Ophir. There is a total of 3.0 Tcf of independently certified 2C contingent resource and another 0.7 Tcf of low risk prospective resource in Block R making a total of 3.7 Tcf (at November 2015) for the project planning case.
A Floating LNG development concept was selected because the gas discovered in Block R is around 99% methane with no contaminants or heavier hydrocarbons and therefore very little topside processing is required. In addition, the benign metocean conditions and proximity to European LNG markets make the FLNG concept the appropriate development option. Utilising a Golar owned LNG tanker, the Ghandria which will be converted into a Floating Liquefaction, Storage and Offloading vessel, makes the project low cost and quick to first gas. The low cost of the development ensures the project can compete with US Gulf Coast Exporters.
The project entered FEED in July 2015 and FID is expected as soon as the financing solution is finalised. Production is expected to be around 330 MMscfd with a plateau of 30 years.
