After approximately three and half years of construction and a series of sea trials in Qidong, China, the floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim FLNG project has started its journey toward the project site off the coasts of Mauritania and Senegal.

The FPSO will cover a distance of approximately 12,000 nautical miles, the equivalent of 22,224 km, between the quay of the construction shipyard in China and the production perimeter.

Developed by BP, Kosmos Energy, Societe des Petroles du Senegal (Petrosen), and Societe Mauritanienne des Hydrocarbures (SMHPM) with BP as the operator, Greater Tortue Ahmeyim is an offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) project that is being developed on the maritime border of Mauritania and Senegal.

The project, which is the deepest offshore project in the African continent to date, is based on the development of two offshore gas fields dubbed the Greater Tortue and Ahmeyim. The Greater Tortue field is located in the Saint Louis Offshore Profond block of Senegal while the Ahmeyim field is located in the C-8 block in Mauritania offshore waters.