Ophir Energy has awarded Fugro Enterprise, a contract to deliver survey services to be used to develop large-scale assets and infrastructure offshore Equatorial Guinea, LNG world news reports.

Fugro is to use three of its vessels; Fugro Searcher, Fugro Scout and Fugro Frontier to carry out surveys which includes, Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) surveys, geotechnical, environmental and metocean surveys.

This surveys are to be carried out at the Fortuna Project situated within the Block R licence, west of Bioko Island where Ophir plans to install a huge FLNG and other related subsea structures.

According to Fugro, with the commencement of the surveys in November 2015, offshore operations will be completed in January of 2016.

Ophir Energy had said in August that its Fortuna FLNG project is expecting its Final Investment Decision (FID) in mid-2016 and its first gas in mid-2019.

Ophir holds an 80% working interest in the Fortuna field which is estimated to produce 2.2 Million metric tonnes per annum.