Siemens to Supply Kit for Ghana OCTP Facility
Siemens subsidiary Dresser-Rand said October 18 it recently secured a contract to supply two compressor trains to an onshore gas unit in Ghana. It did not disclose contract value.
The client, Italy’s Eni, is operator of the $7.9bn Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) project off Ghana which was sanctioned early 2015 and is due to produce first oil next year and first gas in 2018; Eni's partners are Vitol and Ghana's state GNPC. The first Dresser-Rand compressor unit is due for delivery in September 2017, the second in October 2017, and Eni expects to have the onshore plant fully operational in February 2018.
A computer-assisted graphic from an Eni video clip showing the intended layout of the OCTP gas receiving facility (Photo credit: Eni / YouTube)
The equipment will be installed at the Eni-operated onshore gas receiving facility (ORF) near the western Ghanaian village of Sanzule. The ORF will receive the non-associated gas delivered from offshore for further compression and injection into the gas pipeline national network for delivery.
The two centrifugal compressors, to be manufactured in Le Havre in France, will each be driven by a Siemens SGT-400 gas turbine, each made in Lincoln in the UK. The equipment will be packaged and tested at Hengelo in the Netherlands.
US rival GE won a $850mn for the supply of turbo-machinery and subsea elements from Eni for OCTP in March 2015. Initial equipment deliveries under that order were due for delivery in late 2015 with further deliveries prior to first oil in 2017.
Mark Smedley