Investing US$700 million to expand the offshore gas project in Tierra del Fuego

Total Austral announced today that it has started its offshore campaign with the installation of power lines. The first mess of the 35-kilometer pipelineNearby is the Vega Plyade platform, off the coast of Tierra del Fuego province.

The gas project under construction will, from 2025, contribute 10 million cubic meters per day to the system. After investing 700 million US dollarsThe work began in the Argentine South Sea with a team of experts from Saipem and Total Austral on board the Normand Commander – Open Sea Support Operations – which completed the installation of the first sleeper for future offshore pipelines in the region. Close to the Vega Plyade platform.

These concrete blocks will ensure the stability of the pipelines in the sandy areas, said Total, the operator of the consortium project that is also integrating Germany’s Wintershal Dea and National Pan American Energy.

According to the technical teams responsible for the project, the plan for the next few days will include the installation of eight more remaining beams, within the framework of the process that Ends in the first week of July.

It will be handled by the same technical team from Total Austral and the contracting company Saipem Installation of two underwater pipelineswhose tubes are now ready to be transported to the coast of Tierra del Fuego.

Thus, the Fénix project is progressing according to the initially planned schedule, which expects to start work in August on the laying of the underwater pipeline that will connect the new platform to the Vega Plyade.

This shall be set with the ship of Castorone, It is 323 meters long and is considered one of the largest ships in the world And specially prepared for this type of maneuvers.

In the second phase, the focus will be on the team responsible for the transportation and installation of the production platform currently being built at the Rossetti Marino shipyard, in the port of Rvenna, Italy.

Transportation of the platform to Argentina and its subsequent installation To be in charge of Heerema on the ship Aegir.

Finally, the three horizontal wells will be drilled, in which production will start at the end of 2024. The Fnix project, through its three wells that will be drilled in 2024, will provide a production of 10 million cubic meters of gas per day, which means an increase in the availability of gas for Argentina.