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BP operates GTA with a 56 percent working interest alongside Kosmos Energy (27 percent), Petrosen (10 percent), and SMH (7 percent).
Kosmos said in its first-quarter report on Tuesday that the GTA project was lifting a second cargo following the first shipment last month.
The 2019-built 173,400-cbm, British Sponsor, which is on charter to BP, loaded the first shipment.
According to the AIS data provided by VesselsValue, the vessel was located in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday and headed to Singapore.
With the export of this shipment, Mauritania and Senegal joined the LNG-exporting nations club.
The first phase of the project features Golar LNG’s FLNG Gimi and the Tortue FPSO.
In February last year, the 2.7 mtpa FLNG, which was converted from a 1975-built Moss LNG carrier with a storage capacity of 125,000 cbm, arrived at the GTA hub.
After that, the project’s FPSO unit also arrived at the GTA project off the coasts of Mauritania and Senegal in May.
The partners previously signed a sales and purchase agreement under which BP Gas Marketing will offtake 2.45 million tonnes per annum of LNG from the first phase of the GTA project for an initial term of up to 20 years.
Production ramping up, Phase 1+
Kosmos said in the update that GTA production continues to ramp up.
Production in the first quarter averaged approximately 1,300 boepd net (7.8 mmcfd).
Kosmos said that all four FLNG trains are now operational and are being tested at about 10 percent above the nameplate capacity.
Additionally, the subsurface is performing ahead of expectations, with higher connected volumes potentially reducing the number of future wells required, according to he firm.
Near-term, the partnership is continuing to work to reduce operating costs on GTA phase 1, eliminating duplicate costs related to the handover from commissioning to operations.
“We are also actively progressing the FPSO refinancing which is expected to be completed in the second half of the year. The operator is also investigating alternative operating models that could further materially reduce costs,” Kosmos said.
Kosmos also said that the partnership has started work on Phase 1+, a low-cost brownfield expansion of the development that is expected to double gas sales through increased LNG production and domestic gas.
“The expansion would leverage existing infrastructure put in place for the initial phase of GTA with low-cost upgrades to existing facilities that should drive materially lower unit costs and enhance overall project returns,” Kosmos said