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Africa Oil: JV partners have

withdrawn notices of force
majeure on Blocks 10BB and

13T in Kenya

Africa Oil has announced that the joint venture been initiated. The NPDC has additionally on within our group.
partners on the Tullow Oil-operated Blocks announced that the Liquified Natural Gas unit “Our team is ready to tackle your challenges
10BB and 13T in Kenya have submitted a letter will be ready for commissioning in October. worldwide. Let us consult our technology tool-
to the Kenyan Ministry of Petroleum and Min- NPDC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the box and do the hard work for you.”
ing to withdraw the notices of Force Majeure that Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation with DeepTech Oil Services, August 19 2020
were declared on May 15, 2020. responsibility for petroleum exploration and
The lifting of Force Majeure notices has been production activities, is currently the largest RusselSmith and Kongsberg
facilitated by the improvement in COVID- supplier of natural gas to the domestic market.
19 pandemic restrictions worldwide and the Africa Oil & Power, August 25 2020 Ferrotech introduce
resumption of local and international flights,
allowing the restart of the various workstreams autonomous robots for
under the Project. The joint venture partners are SERVICES
also continuing their dialogue with the Gov- subsea repairs in Nigeria
ernment of Kenya to determine the best way DeepTech Oil Services
forward for this strategic project, including dis- Nigerian integrated oilfield services provider,
cussions regarding how the incentives previously delivers game-changing RusselSmith, has teamed up with Kongsberg
granted by the government to the Project shall Ferrotech, a Norwegian subsea robotics com-
be facilitated. project offshore Egypt pany, to introduce a range of autonomous sub-
Africa Oil, August 21 2020 sea robotic technologies to the Nigerian market.
Deepwater remote operations specialists, The robotic solutions are designed to per-
DeepTech Oil Services, has announced the form inspection, repair and maintenance tasks
GAS successful completion of a break through inter- on subsea pipelines, with the distinct advantage
vention project. The scope was delivered in the of being able to assess and repair subsea pipes in
Nigeria to increase gas Zohr gas field in the Egyptian sector of the Med- a single operation without divers and other con-
iterranean Sea for Eni and Egyptian General ventional vessel-supported equipment.
supply by 17 mcm per day Petroleum Corp. (EGPC). It involved securing improving its subsea monitoring, repair and
This partnership will see RusselSmith further
a back-up power recovery system to ensure effi-
Nigerian Petroleum Development Co. (NPDC) cient production from a complete drill centre, lifetime extension service offerings for rigid and
has announced plans to increase gas supply to while remaining completely isolated from the flexible pipes, umbilicals and ancillaries.
the domestic market by an additional 600mn power feed umbilical network. Speaking on the collaboration between both
cubic feet (17mn cubic metres) per day. The Managing Director of DeepTech Oil Ser- companies, Christopher Carlsen, Kongsberg
announcement was made by Mansur Sambo, vices Ahmed Soliman said: “Our team came up Ferrotech’s General Manager, said: “We are
NPDC Managing Director, during a facility tour with the configuration of this project, which is a very pleased to collaborate with RusselSmith to
of the company’s Oredo gas handling plant. game-changer in developing fields which require introduce our autonomous robotic technologies
Despite current production estimated at 1bn a large step-out to drill in search of an extension to the Nigerian market. We believe that these
cubic feet (28.32mn cubic metres) per day, the of production. This solution will allow for an technologies will have a very positive impact on
proposed increase will contribute to the com- additional 4mn cubic feet [113,300 cubic metres] Asset Integrity Management operations in the
pany’s production portfolio between 2023 and per day of natural gas to be produced from the country”.
2025. Zohr field, which is significant especially in chal- RusselSmith’s Divisional Chief Executive,
Sambo expects the company’s Oil Mining lenging market conditions. Effiong Okwong, had this to say: “This is a game-
License (OML) 34 to deliver 360 mcf (10.19 “Our flexible team was able to design the plan changer for our operations. It is also a positive
mcm) per day, with OMLs 42 and 111 deliver- and mobilise for this work in just two weeks, development for the Nigerian Oil & Gas indus-
ing 120 mcf (3.4 mcm) per day correspondingly. which we believe is significantly faster than our try because operators in Nigeria now have access
Additionally, NPDC has boosted crude oil pro- competitors. We know it’s this kind of response to a versatile and effective Emergency Pipeline
duction in OML 111 by 2,100 barrels per day that is highly appreciated by our clients and gives Repair System that has a small footprint and is
(bpd) as well as 27 mcf (765,000 cubic metres) us our competitive advantage. also autonomous.
per day of gas. Thus, increasing cumulative pro- “We are part of a group of companies, includ- We have a growing number of ageing assets
duction from the acreage to 10,699 bpd. ing MCS and Cortez Subsea, and work together in the country that require focused maintenance
Sambo also announced drilling to be under- to provide novel and integrated solutions to the and life extension efforts. Such maintenance
taken at Well 16 in OML 111. Predominantly subsea sector. Coming up with new technologies efforts can now be further optimised for effi-
for gas with associated crude oil, a proposal and ways of working is essential for our industry ciency and made more cost-effective by adopting
for the gas plant to be fed from the well has and this is something we place a great emphasis robotic solutions like ours.

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