| Kizomba deepwater project | |
| Type: | Oil drilling |
| Country: | Angola |
| Owner: | ExxonMobil |
The Kizomba deepwater project is an oil drilling project owned and operated by ExxonMobil off the coast of northern Angola. It is named after the Kizomba Angolan dance.
The Kizomba A project utilizes the Hungo and Chocalho oil fields, in the so-called Block 15 concession off the Angolan coast. The project consists of a TLP and an FPSO, which receives oil from the wells to be stored until transfer to tankers.
The Kizomba A FPSO (at the time of its construction the world's largest) has a storage capacity of 2.2Moilbbl. Built at a cost of over US$800 million by Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan, Korea, it is operated by ExxonMobil. In 1200m (3,900feet) of water at Deepwater block 320km (200miles) offshore in the Atlantic Ocean from Angola, West Africa, it weighs 81,000 tonnes and is 285m (935feet) long, 63m (207feet) wide, and 32m (105feet) high.[1]
Kizomba B is to the east of Kizomba A. ExxonMobil reported the startup phase in October 2005.[2]
The third phase, Kizomba C, was designed to develop 600 million barrels of oil from the Mondo, Saxi and Batuque fields in approximately of water.[3] It was launched in 2008 through 2 FPSOs respectively named Saxi/Batuque and Mondo with a 100,000 bpd production capacity.[4]