Prosperity FPSO
Prosperity FPSO is a purpose-built floating production, storage and offloading vessel serving the Payara development offshore Guyana. First oil was achieved on 14 November 2023. Spread-moored approximately 200 kilometres offshore in about 1,900 metres of water, it processes oil and associated gas from the Payara and Pacora subsea systems, stores stabilised crude and exports it to tankers.
Operator: ExxonMobil
Status: Operational

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Production: Oil & Gas
Operations start: 2023
Water depth: 1900 m
Country: Guyana
Block: Stabroek Block
Type: FPSO
Field
Payara and Pacora lie in the deep-water Stabroek Block of the Guyana–Suriname Basin. Both discoveries encountered high-quality oil-bearing sandstone reservoirs. The large combined development uses ten seabed drill centres connected to Prosperity, with producing wells supported by water and gas injection. It is physically separate from the neighbouring Liza developments but follows a similar subsea-to-FPSO concept.
Facilities
The Payara development comprises 41 subsea wells distributed among ten drill centres: 20 oil producers and 21 water- or gas-injection wells. Production and injection trees connect to seabed manifolds, flowlines, flexible risers and electro-hydraulic umbilicals. These systems transport hydrocarbons and injection fluids while supplying hydraulic control, communications, monitoring and production chemicals to the well network. Prosperity’s topsides provide multiphase separation, crude treatment and stabilisation, associated-gas treatment, dehydration and compression, produced-water handling, seawater treatment and high-pressure reservoir injection. Gas is retained for fuel and reinjection rather than routinely exported through a sales-gas pipeline. Permanent supporting systems include chemical injection, production and export metering, onboard electrical generation, flare and pressure relief, firewater, fire-and-gas detection, emergency shutdown, integrated process and subsea controls, cargo handling, telecommunications and living quarters. The vessel uses SBM Offshore’s Fast4Ward design, combining a purpose-built multi-purpose-floater hull with standardised topside modules. Its arrangement largely replicates Liza Unity. Prosperity is permanently held by a spread-mooring system in approximately 1,900 metres of water and does not employ a weathervaning turret. The hull stores approximately two million barrels of stabilised crude. Export tankers receive oil through the stern tandem-offloading system; no permanent crude pipeline connects the FPSO to shore.

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