The floating production facility, the Cossack Pioneer was commissioned in late 1995 and is the sole oil producing asset within the North West Shelf Venture.

 

Located 34kms east of the massive North Rankin A platform, the Cossack Pioneer is moored to a riser turret mooring connected by flexible flowlines to subsea production wells on various gas fields.

 

The Cossack Pioneer, which has a capacity of 1.15 million barrels of oil, offloads crude oil via a flexible line to bulk tankers moored astern.

 

A pipeline exports LPG-rich gas from the Cossack-Wanaea fields to North Rankin before being transferred to the onshore gas processing facility at Karratha.

 

The vessel has a core crew 29, accommodation for 80.

 

Location:	112km north-west of Karratha, Western Australia 34km east of North Rankin platform
Facility:	Floating production, storage and offloading facility
Storage capacity:	1.15 million barrels
No of wells:	10 production wells
Production capacity:	150,000 barrels of oil per day
Commissioned:	1995
Refurbished:	1999
Water depth:	80 metres
Producing fields:	Wanaea, Cossack, Lambert, Hermes
Permits:	WA-11-L, WA-9-L, WA-16-L
Discovered:	1989 Wanaea, 1990 Cossack, 1996 Hermes, 1996 Lambert