The Jubilee Field was discovered in June 2007 in the Gulf of Guinea, approximately 60 km offshore Western Ghana. It is a very large, light, sweet oil accumulation in 1200-1500m of water. The Jubilee Partners, along with Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) decided in January 2008 to develop the field using a phased approach, after just one appraisal well. Kosmos Energy was appointed Technical Operator to lead an Integrated Project Team (IPT) in executing the development project and Tullow Oil (Ghana) was appointed Unit Operator to execute in-country activities, deliver wells, and operate and manage the field in the future. A third major partner, Anadarko, provided numerous key project personnel to the IPT. The IPT developed a plan to target just under 300 million barrels in Phase 1 with a 17-well subsea well system and 120,000 bopd FPSO. Phase 1 was approved by Partners in August 2008, and First Oil was achieved in November 2010, within the aggressive goal set by GNPC and the Jubilee Partners.rnChallenged to achieve first production in less than 3 years from start of planning for production facilities, the IPT quickly evaluated development options and chose the predominate West Africa model of a subsea production system connected to a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel. It was immediately clear that the subsea production system design, procurement and delivery in 21 months would be key to maintaining the fast track schedule.
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