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Liza Unity FPSO

Liza Unity FPSO is a purpose-built floating production, storage and offloading vessel serving Guyana’s Liza Phase 2 development. First oil was achieved on 11 February 2022. Spread-moored roughly 200 kilometres offshore in about 1,600 metres of water, it receives and processes subsea oil and associated gas, stores stabilised crude and offloads it to export tankers.

Operator: ExxonMobil

Status: Operational

Liza Unity FPSO platform photo

Image Source: Instagram: exxonmobilguyana. (All rights belong to the original owner.)

Production: Oil & Gas

Operations start: 2022

Water depth: 1600 m

Country: Guyana

Block: Stabroek Block

Type: FPSO

Field

Liza Phase 2 develops a further portion of the giant Liza accumulation in the Stabroek Block of the Guyana–Suriname Basin. The reservoir system comprises high-quality Late Cretaceous deep-water sandstones. Six subsea drill centres contain production, water-injection and gas-injection wells, extending the field beyond the four-centre Phase 1 development while using a separate central FPSO.

Facilities

Liza Phase 2 comprises 30 subsea wells across six drill centres: 15 oil producers, nine water injectors and six gas injectors. Subsea trees are clustered around production and injection manifolds. Flowlines, flexible risers and electro-hydraulic umbilicals connect the manifolds to Liza Unity and provide fluid transportation, well control, monitoring and chemical delivery. The FPSO separates oil, associated gas and produced water. Installed facilities provide crude treatment and stabilisation, gas dehydration and compression, produced-water treatment, seawater treatment and high-pressure water injection. Processed gas supplies onboard fuel and is compressed for reinjection through the field’s gas-injection wells. Permanent systems also include chemical injection, process and fiscal metering, electrical generation and distribution, flare and pressure relief, firewater, fire-and-gas detection, emergency shutdown, subsea control, telecommunications, cargo handling and accommodation. Liza Unity is the first operating FPSO based on the Fast4Ward newbuild multi-purpose-floater hull. Nineteen topside modules are installed above the double-hull storage structure. The vessel is spread-moored to seabed anchor piles rather than connected to a turret and has storage for approximately two million barrels of crude. Stabilised oil is transferred to shuttle or export tankers positioned astern through the tandem-offloading arrangement. The original Phase 2 design has no permanent oil pipeline to shore; associated gas is principally retained for fuel and reservoir reinjection.

Liza Unity 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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