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Agbami FPSO

Agbami FPSO is a purpose-built, ship-shaped FPSO handling light crude oil and associated gas from a fully subsea development offshore Nigeria. First oil was achieved on 29 July 2008. Moored approximately 113 kilometres from the central Niger Delta in about 1,463 metres of water, it processes wellstreams, stores stabilised crude and exports cargo through a dedicated offshore loading terminal.

Operator: Chevron

Status: Operational

Agbami FPSO platform photo

Image Source: Linkedin: Blue Polygon Nigeria Limited (BPNL). (All rights belong to the original owner.)

Production: Oil & Gas

Operations start: 2008

Water depth: 1463 m

Country: Nigeria

Block: OML 127, OML 128

Type: FPSO

Field

The Agbami field lies in the deep-water Niger Delta Basin. Hydrocarbons occur in stacked Lower- and Middle-Miocene deep-marine turbidite sandstone reservoirs within a faulted structural trap. The giant accumulation is developed through mid-flank producers, peripheral water injection and crestal gas injection. Every development well is completed on the seabed and connected to one central FPSO through subsea gathering infrastructure.

Facilities

The Agbami development comprises 38 subsea wells: 22 producers, 11 water injectors and five gas injectors. Subsea trees, manifolds, flowlines, jumpers, flexible risers and electro-hydraulic umbilicals connect the drill centres to the FPSO. The development uses mid-flank production, peripheral water injection and crestal reinjection of produced gas. Separate gas-injection manifolds receive compressed gas through dual flexible risers designed for round-trip pigging. Thirteen principal topside modules contain the process and utility systems. Installed functions include inlet and oil separation, crude treatment and stabilisation, associated-gas compression, produced-water treatment, seawater treatment and high-pressure water injection. Produced gas is compressed for reservoir reinjection, fuel and process use rather than routine sales-gas export. Metering, chemical injection and subsea-control systems support well and process management. Permanent utilities include approximately 75 megawatts of electrical generation, flare and pressure-relief equipment, firewater, fire-and-gas detection, emergency shutdown, marine services, cargo systems and accommodation for about 100 people. The purpose-built FPSO is permanently moored in approximately 1,463 metres of water and has storage for about 2.2 million barrels of stabilised oil. Its offloading system uses a surface buoy connected to the FPSO by two U-shaped steel offloading lines. Export tankers moor at the buoy and receive crude away from the production vessel. The installation has no permanent crude pipeline to shore.

Agbami FPSO layout
Image Source: https://www.telic-engineering.nl/?p=660. (All rights belong to the original owner.)

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