bp Produces Gas, Condensate from Raven Field’s Second Development Phase
The Raven Field’s initial phase developed eight subsea wells, located up to 65 km offshore, at water depths ranging from 550 to 700 meters.
bp began oil and condensate production during the Raven Field’s second development phase. Phase 2 at Raven Field, offshore Egypt, includes connecting more subsea infill wells to its existing onshore infrastructure under the West Nile Delta (WND) project. The new wells are expected to produce approximately 220 bcf of gas and 7 million barrels of condensate. bp executed the project safely and well ahead of schedule, allowing production to start sooner.
The Raven Infills initiative aligns with bp’s plan to maximize production at existing assets, therefore optimizing resource efficiency. bp, the operator, holds an 82.75% stake in the project, while Harbour Energy owns the remaining 17.25%.
“Since January 2024, we have not stopped drilling for one day,” said Nader Zaki, bp Regional President for the Middle East and North Africa. “The focus of the Raven Infills project has been to fight natural decline and increase production while maximizing our existing infrastructure to meet Egypt’s domestic market demand at pace. This further demonstrates bp’s commitment to investing in Egypt, enabled by the support and partnership with the Ministry of Petroleum, EGPC, and EGAS.”
Offshore platform in the Raven Field; image credit: bp
WND Project
The Raven Field, in production since 2021, is the final phase of the WND Gas Development project: WND features a series of gas condensate fields located offshore Egypt, within the North Alexandria and West Mediterranean Deepwater concessions. Its initial phase developed eight subsea wells, located up to 65 km offshore, at water depths ranging from 550 to 700 meters.
“The safe start-up of this project follows our recent announcement of the successful completion of the El King exploration well,” said Wail Shaheen, Vice President of bp Egypt. “This series of achievements embodies our ongoing commitment to helping meet the increasing local energy demand by optimizing production from available resources while adding new ones.”
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In early January 2025, Kosmos Energy announced that first gas production started at the Greater Tortue Ahemyim (GTA) LNG project offshore Mauritania and Senegal. With bp as operator, gas from GTA’s initial phase flowed from wells to a floating production, storage, and offloading vessel prior to its transportation and liquefaction in a floating LNG vessel.
Upon final commissioning, GTA Phase 1 may produce approximately 2.3 mtpa of LNG, along with the floating LNG vessel nameplate capacity of around 2.7 mtpa. First LNG production and cargo is scheduled for Q1 2025, enabling Mauritania and Senegal to become an LNG production hub in West Africa.
In February 2024, bp announced that the floating LNG vessel, Gimi, arrived at its destination on the Mauritania and Senegal maritime border for the first phase of the GTA LNG project. GTA Phase 1 development is operated by bp, Kosmos Energy, PETROSEN, and SMH. Gimi is owned and operated by Golar LNG, and it traveled over 9,000 nautical miles from Singapore in November 2023. More than 36 million work hours were spent on the vessel’s construction.
The GTA LNG project will produce gas from reservoirs in deep water, about 120 km offshore, through a subsea system to a floating production, storage, and offloading vessel. This vessel will initially process the gas to remove heavy hydrocarbon components. Natural gas will be transported via pipeline to the vessel at the GTA hub, then cryogenically cooled in four liquefaction trains and stored before transfer to LNG carriers. Gimi can store up to 125,000 m3 of LNG.
