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Accugas supplies FIPL with gas from its processing facility (Photo: Savannah Energy)
The increase will ensure gas supplies to FIPL’s production and evacuation to Nigeria’s national
Trans Amadi and Eleme power plants, as well as grid.
the Afam power station. “I am very pleased to have commenced gas
The FIPL Trans Amadi power plant has a sales to the Trans Amadi power station. I am
generating capacity of 136 MW, but the capacity proud of the key role we are increasingly play-
had recently been limited due to gas availability ing in providing power to Nigeria at this time,”
issues from its primary supplier. Savannah’s CEO Andrew Knott said.
Savannah began gas supply to the Trans Apart from Nigeria, Savannah is also devel-
Amadi power plant on June 19, which has oping energy projects in Cameroon, Chad and
allowed for the resumption of electricity Niger. ™

Eco Atlantic to spud Gazania-1 well

offshore South Africa in September

SOUTH AFRICA UK-BASED Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas and its by Island Drilling Co., to drill the well under
partners in Block 2B offshore South Africa are low-pressure, low-temperature conditions. It
gearing up to spud the Gazania-1 exploration expects Island Drilling Co. to mobilise the rig
well before the end of the third quarter. from Bergen, Norway in the second half of July.
In a statement dated June 22, Eco Atlantic According to the statement, Eco Atlantic is
said that its wholly owned subsidiary Azinam taking a number of steps to minimise the envi-
South Africa was due to begin drilling the well ronmental impact of the Gazania-1 drilling
in early September. programme. Once drilling work begins, for
Drilling work is expected to take about 25 example, the company will be using environ-
days to complete, it reported. mentally friendly types of water-based drilling
The company said it would be sinking fluids, along with three sets of telescoped and
the shaft at a site about 25 km from shore in cemented casings to case the well. Additionally,
150-metre-deep water. The well “will be drilled once it wraps up testing operations, it will seal
to a depth of approximately 2,800 metres to and plug the well, leaving no equipment on the
target a stacked pay section up-dip of the AJ-1 seabed.
discovery and in the proven oil horizon,” it Meanwhile, the statement said, Eco Atlantic
explained. is also seeking to take the interests of those liv-
Eco Atlantic has already arranged to use the ing in the areas nearest to the drilling site into
Island Innovator semi-submersible rig, owned account.

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