The much awaited floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, was received at Ghana after a long voyage from Singapore.

The FPSO, which left Singapore on January 23, 2016, is to be set up at the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) offshore oil fields operated by Tullow.

Owned by Modec (a Japanese company), the TEN FPSO is 340 metres long and can process up to 80,000 bopd from the TEN fields. The vessel will be joined to the risers and subsea infrastructure in about 1,500 meters water depth. First oil is anticipated between July and August 2016.

According to Tullow, the TEN average working interest output this year will be about 23,000 bopd, Offshore Energy Today reports.

Anita Fatunji