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The transaction brought its stake in the Sango- Sangomar Deep Offshore – give the joint ven-
mar Deep field up to 82% and its stake in the ture its name.)
other two sections of the licence area up to 90%. Oil was discovered at the Sangomar block in
Petrosen, the national oil company (NOC) of 2014, and Woodside hopes to begin production
Senegal, owns the remaining 18% in Sango- in 2023. The licence area is estimated to contain
mar Deep and the remaining 10% in Sangomar 645mn barrels of oil equivalent in recoverable
Offshore and Rufisque. (The three fields within reserves, including 485mn barrels of crude oil
the block – Rufisque, Sangomar Offshore and and 160mn boe of natural gas. ™

Tullow reports on progress

of Ghana drilling programme

GHANA TULLOW Oil (UK/Ireland) reported last week early 2022
that its drilling programme in Ghana’s offshore This well, along with J-56, will help boost the
zone was moving forward as planned. field’s average production in 2022, the statement
In a statement, the company said it had said.
already completed work on J-56, a new devel- The company went on to say that Jubilee and
opment well at the Jubilee oilfield. The well is TEN had produced a combined 107,600 bpd in
already operational and is now yielding about the first half of this year. (Tullow’s share of the
10,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude, slightly total is 42,500 bpd, with 25,100 bpd coming
more than expected, it said. from Jubilee and 17,400 bpd from TEN, in line
Tullow did not specify exactly when J-56 had with its equity stakes in the two licence areas.)
come on stream. In any event, the new well is Additionally, it noted that gas off-take and
likely to lift production levels at Jubilee above water-injection rates at Jubilee had remained
70,600 bpd, the average figure reported for the steady at 110-130mn cubic feet (3.11-3.68mn
first half of 2021. cubic metres) per day and 200,000 bpd respec-
Meanwhile, the company is working to tively in the January-June period.
complete WI-55, the second well in this year’s Tullow acquired stakes in Jubilee and TEN
four-year drilling programme. It expects to tie in 2004, via its purchase of South Africa-based
the water injection well into exiting production Energy Africa. Since then, the sites have become
systems before the end of September. its largest productive assets.
Once the WI-55 tie-in has been com- However, they have also been the source
pleted, Tullow will move its rig to the Twene- of some frustration. Last year, the company
boa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) block to spud a reported a decline in reserves at Enyenra and
gas injection well in the fourth quarter of 2021. said that Ghana National Gas Co. (GNGC) was
Subsequently, it will bring the rig back to Jubilee requesting lower volumes of associated gas from
so that it can spud another development well in Jubilee and TEN. ™

Oil was discovered at the Jubilee field in 2007 (Image: Tullow Oil)

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