Santos awards Dorado wellhead platform Feed contract to Sapura
Santos on August 26 announced the award of the front-end engineering design (Feed) contract for the design, construction and installation of the wellhead platform (WHP) for the Dorado project offshore Western Australia to Malaysia’s Sapura Energy.
The WHP will be an unmanned installation, located in 90 m water over the Dorado oil and gas field, hosting the development wells and gas reinjection wells, remotely operated from a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility approximately 2 km away. Santos earlier this week awarded the FPSO Feed contract to Altera Infrastructure.
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Dorado is an integrated oil and gas project which is planned to be developed in two phases. The initial development involves the production of oil and condensate through a WHP and FPSO. Gas will be reinjected in the initial phase to enhance oil and condensate recovery, followed by a planned future phase of gas production to backfill Santos’ domestic gas infrastructure in Western Australia.
According to Santos, Dorado is a very low CO2 reservoir with approximately 1.5% CO2 and reinjection of gas in the initial phase, making it one of the lowest emission intensity oil projects in the region.
“This contract for the wellhead platform is the project’s last significant commitment as we progress towards a project final investment decision around the middle of next year,” Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher said.
Santos has an 80% interest in the Dorado project and is the operator. The remaining interest is held by Carnarvon Petroleum.