Development / Production

Kenya to start exporting crude oil in June 2017

August 24, 2016 | Development / Production, Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya | – Kenya has set June 2017 as the month it will start exporting oil with oil and gas exploration company Tullow Oil confirming that it will start oil production in March next year. This comes after sustained calls by Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta to expedite exportation of Kenya’s first oil. According to Tullow Oil Chief Operating Officer Paul McDade who was briefing President Kenyatta at State House that the company was making good progress in exploration and production. The oil will be …

Shell commences production from Bonga Phase 3 project offshore Nigeria

October 05, 2015 | Development / Production, Nigeria

London, UK | – Anglo–Dutch multinational oil and gas major Shell said it has launched the start-up of production from the Bonga Phase 3 project in Nigeria. The Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) pioneered Nigeria’s deep-water oil and gas production at the Bonga field. Bonga Phase 3 is an expansion of the Bonga Main development, with peak production expected to be some 50,000 barrels of oil and 150 million standard cubic feet of gas per day. The Bonga field has been producing oil …

Tullow Oil resumes production at Ghana’s Jubilee field

August 12, 2015 | Development / Production, Ghana

London, UK | – Tullow Oil plc said gas exports from its Jubilee field in Ghana have resumed following the completion of works on a gas compressor and oil production has now returned to previous rates. The oil and gas exploration group also said that the governments of Uganda and Kenya have agreed on a route for the regional crude oil export pipeline. Tullow said this was a major milestone “and the company looks forward to working with the governments and partners on development of …

Algeria boosts oil output by 32,000bpd with two new fields

August 04, 2015 | Algeria, Development / Production

Algiers, Algeria | – Algeria has increased crude oil output by 32,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) after starting production at two fields, an energy ministry official said Aug. 2. Production increased Aug. 1 when the Bir Sebaa Field started producing 20,000 bbl/d in addition to 12,000 bbl/d from the Bir Msana Field in Hassi Messaoud area, the official told Reuters. Algeria produced an average 1.1 MMbbl/d in July, according to a Reuters survey. It has struggled to draw foreign oil investment to increase output that …

Total begins oil production at Dalia Phase 1A offshore Angola

July 23, 2015 | Angola, Development / Production

London, UK | – French oil giant Total has commenced production from Dalia Phase 1A development located offshore Block 17, 135km off the coast of Angola. Expected to produce 30,000 barrels a day (b/d), the Dalia Phase 1A project will have seven infill wells drilled to develop additional reserves of 51 million barrels (Mb). The wells are tied back to the Dalia floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit. Concessionaire Sonangol Group operates four FPSO units on the production zones of the block. Total exploration …

Angola’s Sonangol to start oil production in Cuba in 2016

July 17, 2015 | Angola, Development / Production

Luanda, Angola | – Oil production in Cuba, in partnership with Sonangol, may begin between 2016 and 2017, said on Tuesday in Luanda, the vice-president of the Cabinet Council of Cuba, Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz. The official was speaking to the Angolan press at the end of an audience with the Vice-president of the Republic, Manuel Vicente, stating that oil prospecting and exploration works conducted in the seas of Cuba have been efficient and promising. He assured that the perspectives are warming. The Cuban official stated …

Algeria’s oil output at 1.12 million bpd, under average

June 09, 2015 | Algeria, Development / Production

Algiers, Algeria | Algeria’s oil production is 1.12 million barrels per day, a level just under the average output for the last few years for the North African OPEC producer, an industry source said. Algeria, a key supplier of Europe’s gas needs, expects to boost projects at its large gas field Hassi R’mel, bringing output to 2.6 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) a year for the next ten years, including 1.4 Tcf for export. Algeria’s government is pushing to increase energy production after several years of stagnant output, …

Total produces 2 bbbl from Angola’s deepwater block 17

May 28, 2015 | Angola, Development / Production

Paris, France | – French Total SA has achieved the significant milestone of producing a cumulative 2 Bbbl from its operated deepwater Block 17, 150 km off the coast of Angola. With the recent start-up of CLOV, Block 17 has become Total’s most prolific site with production of over 700,000 bopd. The Group operates four FPSO units on the major production zones of the block: Girassol, Dalia, Pazflor and CLOV. “Block 17 is a global benchmark in the deep offshore and represents a unique industrial adventure, with 15 …