TotalEnergies EP Uganda lets slickline contract for Tilenga
TotalEnergies EP Uganda has let a 5-year well intervention and integrity contract to Expro Group Holdings NV for the multi-well Tilenga oil development project onshore Uganda. Expro values the contract at over $30 million, it said in a release June 5.
The Tilenga project covers six fields, with over 400 wells planned across multiple pads. Drilling will start this year and continue for 5 years.
Work begins in this year’s second quarter, with Expro initially supporting drilling activity followed by production optimization, integrity and well workover support, the service provider said. Final investment decision on the project was made in February 2022 (OGJ Online, Feb. 1, 2022).
Expro has designed four well intervention units to deliver a single operational solution for slickline and braided line in a cased hole environment across the life of the well. The solution is designed to reduce equipment footprint and equivalent CO2 emissions, while delivering improved efficiency, it said.
Tilenga production will be delivered through buried pipelines to a treatment plant built in Kasenyi for separation and treatment of oil, water, and gas. Produced water will be reinjected into the fields and the gas will be used to produce the energy needed for the treatment process. Production will be delivered to the Tanzanian port of Tanga by a cross-border pipeline, built and operated by the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).
Tilenga is operated by TotalEnergies (56.6%) in partnership with CNOOC and UNOC.
Alex Procyk | Upstream Editor
Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).
