Total begins production at Usan FPSO

Deepwater debut: Production gets underway at Usan field off Nigeria

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Bill Lehane

, Bill Lehane

 24 February 2012 14:34 GMT

France’s Total has kicked off production at its second deepwater development in Nigeria, the offshore Usan field.

The Usan development in Block OML 138 lies around 100 kilometres off the southeast coast in water depths ranging from 750 to 850 meters.

Its spread moored floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel is designed to process 180,000 barrels per day and with a crude storage capacity of two million barrels.

Forty-two wells are connected to the FPSO by a 70-kilometre subsea network.

Exploration and production president Yves-Louis Darricarrère said the development was notable for its above-average use of local manpower.

More than 500,000 engineering man-hours and 14 million construction and installation man-hours were…

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