Nigeria’s Bonga Northwest starts flowing for Shell
Bonga Northwest will flow a peak of 40,000 barrels of oil-equivalent a day
Shell brought its Bonga Northwest field on stream as the first satellite development to the Bonga field – the country’s first large deep-water development, which started flowing in 2005. Bonga Northwest will flow a peak of 40,000 barrels of oil-equivalent a day (boe/d), helping to maintain Bonga output at around 200,000 b/d of oil and 4.25 million cubic metres a day of gas. Bonga Northwest was developed with four subsea production wells and two water-injectors, in over 1,000 metres of water. Production is piped to the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel on the main Bonga field, which Shell says has a capacity of 200,000 b/d now – down from the original 225,000 b/d. Bon
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