Anglo-Dutch giant Shell is set to kick-start fully-fledged engineering studies within weeks on its delayed Bonga South West ‘Lite’ project off Nigeria, which aims to develop 800 million barrels of recoverable oil.
Two contractor groups, according to sources, are ready to start front-end engineering and design studies on a scaled-down ‘lite’ version of the 225,000-barrel-per-day floating production, storage and offloading vessel originally selected for the deep-water Bonga SW development.