H.E Mrs. Lordina Mahama names Ghana’s second FPSO

30 SEPTEMBER 2015

The First Lady of the Republic of Ghana, H.E Mrs. Lordina Dramani Mahama, officially named Ghana’s second floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel at a ceremony in Singapore on 30 th September, 2015. The vessel was named ‘FPSO Prof. John Evans Atta Mills’, after the late president who oversaw First Oil from Ghana’s Jubilee Field in 2010. FPSO Prof. John Evans Atta Mills will produce and store oil from Ghana’s Tweneboa -Enyenra – Ntomme (TEN) oilfields which lie around 60 kilometres from the coast of the Western Region. The vessel is nearing the end of its construction at Sembcorp Marine Shipyard in Singapore and is due to sail for Ghana around the end of 2015. It is expected to arrive in Ghanaian waters in February 2016 to be hooked-up to the subsea production equipment which is being installed on the seabed in the TEN fields. The FPSO will start producing oil in mid-2016.

FPSO Prof. John Evans Atta Mills was converted from an oil tanker into an FPSO over a period of two years. She is 340 metres long and will have the capacity to process up to 80,000 barrels of oil per day from the TEN fields.

The development of the TEN fields is being led by Tullow Oil along with its partners the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Kosmos Energy and Petro SA. The project is on track to deliver First Oil in mid-2016. The construction of the FPSO has been led by floating production solution provider MODEC.