LLOG Exploration Offshore has brought the Salamanca Floating Production Unit (FPU) online in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico, achieving first oil from the Leon field in Keathley Canyon Block 689. The facility, located in 6,400 ft of water, marks the first reuse of a former Gulf production unit repurposed for new development.
Launched in August 2021, this new phase called “Mero-4” will connect 12 wells to the new Alexandre de Gusmão FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading) unit, with a production capacity of 180,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd). This project has been designed to minimize greenhouse gas emissions, with reinjection of the associated gas into the reservoir and zero routine flaring.
The 92km Hoima-Kaiso-Tonya road straightens, then snakes around the escarpments of the great Albertine rift valley before halting at the onshore Kingfisher oil field at the parallels of Lake Albert in mid-western Uganda.