Following the FPSO purchase contract which was signed between Woodside and MODEC on 10 January 2020, with respect to the supply of the FPSO, MOSEN will be responsible for the operations and maintenance of the FPSO. The operations and maintenance contract will cover all in-country installation and commissioning activities following which an initial 10 year operations and maintenance term will commence. Extension options are allowed for every year thereafter up to 10 additional years.

The FPSO will be deployed at the Sangomar field located approximately 100 km south of Dakar, Senegal. The Sangomar Field Devel opment is expected to be Senegal’s first offshore oil development.

Scheduled for delivery in 2023, the FPSO vessel will be permanently moored at a water depth of approximately 780 m by an External Turret mooring system to be supplied by SOFEC, Inc., a MODEC group company.

The FPSO will be capable of processing 100 000 bpd of crude oil, 130 million ft3/d of gas, 145 000 bpd of water injection and will have minimum storage capacity of 1.3 million bbl of crude oil.

“We are delighted and proud that Woodside awarded us the contract for the operations and maintenance of the memorable first FPSO for Senegalese waters further to another major contract for the supply of this FPSO,” commented Yuji Kozai, President and CEO of MODEC. “In West Africa, we have accumulated well nearly 30 years of operational experience with three FPSOs by identifying and involving local based professionals and labour. We are pleased to be a part of the team that will contribute to the advancement of local energy industry with this long-term operational project in Senegal too.”

MODEC currently operates three FPSOs in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire as well as it has supplied another seven floating production facilities such as FPSO, FSO and Tension Leg Platform (TLP) that have been installed in Angola, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Nigeria.