Wison New Energies has signed an engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning contract for a new floating production vessel destined for Eni’s Baleine Phase 3 project offshore Côte d’Ivoire, advancing one of West Africa’s largest recent offshore developments.
The contract, signed alongside Eni and Altera Infrastructure, will see Altera own and operate the vessel under a fixed 15-year bareboat charter. The newbuild FPSO, to be constructed in China, is designed to handle 90,000 barrels of oil and 160 million standard cubic feet of gas a day, along with 80,000 barrels of produced water, and will carry 1.4 million barrels of crude storage capacity.
Once Phase 3 comes online, total production from the Baleine field is expected to reach about 150,000 barrels of oil and 200 million standard cubic feet of gas a day, with all the gas earmarked for Côte d’Ivoire’s domestic market to support power generation and industry. Eni and partners Petroci and Vitol sanctioned Phase 3 through a final investment decision in May 2026, building on the field’s fast-track development since its discovery.
The Baleine field sits in water depths of 700 to 1,300 metres roughly 70 kilometres offshore, and continues to cement Côte d’Ivoire’s status as a rising regional energy hub.
Source: offshore-mag.com