Saipem has awarded a contract for subsea pre-commissioning services for Guyana’s Whiptail development, part of ExxonMobil’s prolific Stabroek play, to contractor Enermech, the companies said on Tuesday.
This will be EnerMech’s first involvement in Whiptail, after the company supported subsea campaigns across other Stabroek projects including Liza Phase 2, Payara, Yellowtail and Uaru.
The workscope will see EnerMech deliver a suite of pre-commissioning activities, including cleaning and hydrotesting of subsea risers and flowlines; umbilical post-load out, transit and lay monitoring from the offshore construction vessel; and dynamic umbilical lay monitoring with post-installation testing from the FPSO.
EnerMech chief executive Charles Davison Jr said the contract is “another important milestone in our Guyana growth story”.
The company said it is “investing locally” with a new facility that will be based in Georgetown, allowing the company to mobilise faster for future projects.
So far, ExxonMobil has deployed four FPSOs in the Stabroek Block — Liza Destiny, Liza Unity, Prosperity and the recently commissioned One Guyana — collectively boosting installed capacity to over 900,000 barrels per day of oil.
Source: upstream