Subsea 7
Chinguetti
Location:Mauritania West Africa
Project value:$180M
Project description:The Chinguetti field lies off the coast of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, North West Africa, in Block 4, PSC (Production Sharing Contract) area B, approx. 80km west of the Mauritanian coastline and 90km from the capital, Nouakchott. In 300 to 800m of water
The field will be developed by an FPSO, located approximately 5km from the centre of the field, in a north-east or south-east trending direction. Chinguetti will produce from six production wells from three drilling centres / manifolds at start-up
The contract for the engineering procurement installation and commissioning of the Woodside Chinguetti subsea facilities was awarded to Subsea 7 Supply of the flowlines was split between two sub contractors wellstream for the 10" production flowlines and technip for 10" water injection, 8" gas injection 6" gas lift flowlines and all risers. Manifolds supplied by FMC
Timing & duration:18 months completed
Completion date:2006
Our scope:Contractor Project Construction Management;
Construction Manager through from tender to hand over to operator.
Provision of project engineers