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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last week turned the valves on Ghana’s third Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel, FPSO John Agyekum Kufuor at 11.38am, to signify the start of formal commercial production on the Sankofa-Gye Nyame oil and gas field.

SRI EMAS Limited(SEL), was responsible for the complete subsea architecture installation including Structures, Flowlines, Umbilical and Risers. The installed hardware are the conduits through which the oil extracted from below the seabed is moved to the floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) - John Agyekum Kuffuor.

A 63-kilometer submarine pipeline will transport gas to Sanzule's Onshore Receiving Facilities (ORF), where raw gas will be processed and transported to Ghana’s national distribution pipelines , supplying approximately 180 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd).

SRI EMAS is an Independent Ghanaian company that delivers integrated offshore solutions in Ghana and the sub-region.

These include SURF installation, Light Well Intervention Works, Floater and Mooring Installation, Pipe Lay and Heavy Lift, accommodation and marine support, coupled with a track record of offshore engineering solutions for the entire oil-field cycle.

The company is equipped with highly skilled Ghanaian personnel including marine and subsea engineers.

Miss Carla Olympio, the Legal Counsel at SRI EMAS asserted that their level of delivery was evidenced in the fact that their client – ENI Ghana Ltd, has been able to start production 3 months earlier than expected.

In a statement from ENI’s press office published in the media, Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi stated that starting production only two and a half years after the approval of the Development Plan –- is an extraordinary result. It certifies our exploration skills and knowledge, as well as our field development vision, and it confirms the effectiveness of ENI’s new operational model, where they have a central role in project management, aimed at improving time-to-market.

The OCTP integrated oil & gas development is made up of the Sankofa Main, Sankofa East and Gye-Nyame fields, which are located about 60 kilometers off Ghana’s Western Region coast. ENI’s statement further explained that the fields have about 770 million barrel of oil equivalent (mboe) in place, of which 500 million barrels are oil and 270 mboe are non-associated gas (about 40 billion cubic meters).