RE: Gas Flaring20 Mar 2019 22:03
LS,
I am sure that there wiil be flaring/venting during commissioning or shall we say pre ops prior to FOIL declaration.The facilities will be leak tested and function tested as an integrated subsea/topside system, which is traditionally the commissioning phase, during which no flaring will occur The facilities will then be handed over to operations (maybe mostly the same team), who will then introduce hydrocarbons, that is flow/clean up each well separately and sequentially, bringing mixed/dirty oil and downhole fluids onboard initially and progressively until clean oil produced to the tanks. Only when both wells are cleaned up and producing into the tanks will FOIL be declared, IMO.
So there will some flaring about halfway through the program during clean up of the first well and again towards the end of the second well clean up.
FOIL declaration is probably when relatively steady state, but low, production is established into the tanks, say first 5000 bbls, during which continuous flaring will be evident.