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Liza Destiny FPSO

Liza Destiny FPSO is a converted-VLCC floating production, storage and offloading vessel handling oil and associated gas from Guyana’s Liza Phase 1 development. First oil was achieved on 20 December 2019. Spread-moored approximately 190 kilometres offshore in about 1,525 metres of water, it processes subsea production, stores stabilised crude and transfers oil to visiting export tankers.

Operator: ExxonMobil

Status: Operational

Liza Destiny FPSO platform photo

Image Source: Facebook: Oil and Gas World. (All rights belong to the original owner.)

Production: Oil & Gas

Operations start: 2019

Water depth: 1525 m

Country: Guyana

Block: Stabroek Block

Type: FPSO

Field

Liza lies in the Stabroek Block on the continental slope of the Guyana–Suriname Basin. It is a giant Late Cretaceous deep-water clastic accumulation containing high-quality oil-bearing sandstone reservoirs. Phase 1 develops the field through four seabed drill centres, combining oil-production wells with water and gas injection around the central FPSO.

Facilities

Liza Phase 1 comprises 17 subsea wells distributed across four drill centres: eight oil producers, six water injectors and three gas injectors. Subsea production and injection trees are grouped around manifolds and connected to Liza Destiny by flowlines, flexible risers and electro-hydraulic control umbilicals. The umbilicals provide hydraulic control, communications and chemical services to the seabed equipment. The converted VLCC carries 14 topside modules. Installed process functions include multiphase separation, crude-oil treatment and stabilisation, associated-gas treatment and compression, produced-water handling, seawater treatment and high-pressure water injection. Compressed gas is used as FPSO fuel and reinjected through dedicated gas-injection wells. Permanent supporting systems include chemical injection, production and export metering, onboard electrical generation and distribution, flare and pressure-relief equipment, firewater, fire-and-gas detection, emergency shutdown, subsea control, telecommunications, marine systems and living quarters. The vessel is approximately 334 metres long, 58 metres wide and 31 metres deep. A spread-mooring system keeps it on station without a weathervaning turret. Its cargo tanks store approximately 1.6 million barrels of stabilised crude. Export tankers position astern and receive oil through the FPSO’s tandem-offloading system. Liza Destiny has no fixed crude-oil export pipeline to shore; the original development manages associated gas through fuel use and reservoir reinjection.

Liza Destiny FPSO layout
Image Source: Wikimedia Commons: US Energy Information Administration. World Bank; Guyana Ministry of Natural Resources. (All rights belong to the original owner.)

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