Total has has officially brought the Dalia field, in Block 17, off Angola, on stream at a ceremony attended by Angola’s Petroleum Minister, Desiderio Costa, Songangol boss Manuel Vicente and Total's chief Christophe de Margerie.Dalia came on stream in December last year. Output already exceeds 200,000 barrels per day and is expected to hit 240,000 bpd soon.
“Dalia is a new global technological benchmark, a milestone in the history of deep-water oil development,” de Margerie said.
With proved and probable reserves estimated at close to 1 billion barrels, the Dalia development cost more than $4 billion. The field comprises 71 wells - 31 for water injection, three for gas injection and 37 producers tied into nine manifolds.
The oil is pumped to a 300 metre floating production storage and offloading vessel that can process 240,000 barrels per day of oil and has a storage capacity of 2 million barrels.
Block 17, which hosts 15 discoveries, lies 135 kilometres off the Angolan coast in water depths ranging from 1200 to 1500 metres.
The block comprises four major areas: Girassol and Dalia, both in production; Pazflor, which is in the final bidding process before sanction; and CLOV, a fourth major production area based on the Cravo, Lirio, Violeta and Orquidea discoveries, whose development is currently being studied. Future production from these fields will come on top of the 500,000 barrels per day that will be pumped by summer 2007. Sonangol is the Block 17 concessionaire. Total, which operates the block has a 40% interest, alongside partners ExxonMobil (20%), BP (16.67%), Statoil (13.33%) and Norsk Hydro (10%).
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