Shell: Nakika Field Development

Design & Engineering Support

Asset Details:

The Nakika Development is located approximately 140 miles southeast of New Orleans in water depths ranging from 5,800' to 7,000 feet. The project is a subsea development of five independent fields tied back to a centrally-located production host facility situated on Mississippi Canyon Block 474 in 6,340 feet of water. A sixth field, Coulomb, is in a water depth of approximately 7,600’. Shell is the pre-development operator of the Nakika development, responsible for the design, fabrication, and installation of the floating host facility and subsea production systems, as well as the drilling and completion of the 10 development wells. BP is the post-production operator, responsible for the operation of the host facility and surveillance of the satellite subsea fields.

Project Details:

GATE, LLC have been involved supporting the pipeline engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning including: Chemical Systems Engineering Subsea Pipeline Corrosion Engineering & Materials Support Technical Audit of Anode and Chemical Suppliers Elastomer Selection and Testing Materials and Corrosion Engineering Corrosion Protection Systems Review Joule-Thompson Chilly Choke Materials Analysis