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According to Aker Energy’s statement, this our partners, we are optimistic that we will
switch to a phased approach will significantly establish a workable concept so that we can
reduce the capital expenditure budget for the finally see first oil in the fourth offshore field in
project. Ghana. We remain committed to Ghana.”
It will also bring break-even costs down to Pecan is believed to contain 450-550mn
a lower level and increase the likelihood that barrels of oil equivalent (boe) in recoverable
Pecan will be profitable, the company said. reserves. Aker Energy has said it will develop
It added that it had not yet decided which Pecan on a stand-alone basis, without focusing
FPSO it might use for work at Pecan. At pres- on hydrocarbon reserves in other sections of the
ent, the company is assessing several candidate DWP/CTP block.
vessels and will make a final decision “based on Equity in the project is split between Aker
technical capabilities and cost,” the statement Energy, the operator, with 50%; Lukoil (Russia),
said. with 38%; state-owned Ghana National Petro-
Kadijah Amoah, Aker Energy’s country leum Corp. (GNPC), with 10%, and Fueltrade
director for Ghana, commented: “Along with (Ghana), with 2%. ™

Pecan lies within the Deepwater Tano/Cape Three Points block offshore Ghana (Image: Aker Energy)

Mozambique says COVID-19 outbreak

under control at Total work camp

MOZAMBIQUE MOZAMBICAN authorities have given Total a contained. Since the outbreak at the work camp
green light to resume the construction of a gas has been brought under control, he said, “this
liquefaction plant in Cabo Delgado Province. means that activities in Afungi can go back to
The French company halted most of its normal.”
onshore operations in April, after a number of Samo Gudo declined to answer a question
workers at the camp contracted the coronavirus about when work might resume, noting that the
(COVID-19) infection. matter was not in the hands of the INS. “This
The outbreak swept through the work camp, is a decision that depends on the owner of the
which is sited on the Afungi Peninsula, and camp [Total],” he said. “What we are saying is
eventually became the worst cluster of illness in that from an epidemiological point of view, the
the country. outbreak has been controlled.”
Eduardo Samo Gudo, the deputy general In the meantime, he said, all but one of the
director of Mozambique’s National Health Insti- residents of the work camp have been released
tute (known locally as INS), told reporters on from quarantine after remaining in isolation for
June 7 that the threat to public health had been the recommended interval.

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