Houston-based oil and gas engineering firm Gate Energy has been selected to provide commissioning services for BP’s Kaskida FPU.
Gate Energy’s scope includes static and dynamic commissioning, systems completion management, and interface coordination.
The project will be done in close collaboration with Seatrium, the EPC solutions provider for the project. This award builds on Gate’s commissioning experience across multiple Seatrium-fabricated FPUs.
“Following our successful delivery of commissioning on BP’s Argos platform, we’re proud to bring that same level of commitment and technical excellence to the Kaskida project,” said Mark Myhre, president of commissioning at Gate Energy.
The Kaskida project is a greenfield development located approximately 400 km southwest of New Orleans, in the Keathley Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico.
The Kaskida FPU will be able to produce 80,000 barrels of crude oil per day from six wells in the first phase of development. The field was discovered back in 2006 and is estimated to hold 4bn barrels of oil. This will be BP’s first new project in the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
According to previous statements from BP, which owns 100% of the discovery, the price tag for the development of Kaskida should be between $15bn and $20bn.
