The first phase is understood to centre on water injection through a jack-up facility to go on charter for up to five years.

The jack-up will be bridge-linked to the current D-18 production platform and new water-injection and gas-lift pipelines will connect the central D-18 facility to two existing satellite platforms in the field.

About 9000 barrels per day of water will initially be injected from the jack-up facility into four planned wells via the three platforms.

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