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The single Total employee who remains in iso- Energy Mozambique, a 60:40 joint venture
lation has been tested for COVID-19 infection between ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) and Oil India
and will be discharged if the results are negative, Ltd (OIL), with 10%; Mozambique’s national oil
he stated. company (NOC) ENH, with 10%; and PTTEP
He went on to say that the work camp had (Thailand), with 8.5%. The Total subsidiary is
introduced certain restrictions in order to guard serving as the operator of the project. ™
against a second wave of infections. “Since it’s a
closed area, the concern now is not to import
cases,” he told reporters. “We are witnessing an
acceleration of COVID-19 cases outside the
camp, but inside the camp it’s controlled.”
Total is building the gas liquefaction plant
on the Afungi Peninsula within the framework
of the Mozambique LNG project. The onshore
facility will process natural gas from Area 1, an
offshore block in the Rovuma Basin. It will even-
tually have two production trains, each with a
capacity of 6.44mn tonnes per year (tpy).
Equity in the Mozambique LNG consortium
is split between Total E&P Mozambique Area 1,
with 26.5%; Mitsui (Japan), with 20%; Bharat
Petroleum (India), with 15%; Beas Rovuma Mozambique LNG will process gas from Area 1 (Image: Total)

Tullow wraps up early oil in Kenya

KENYA TULLOW Oil (UK/Ireland) and its partners Despite all these setbacks, Tullow’s COO
have brought their early oil production scheme Mark MacFarlane described the EOPS as a suc-
(EOPS) in Kenya to a halt without exporting all cess last week. The programme has helped the
of the crude they have extracted from fields in company and its partners prepare for full-field
the Lokichar Basin. development, he was quoted as saying in a com-
EOPS operations came to a halt on June 2, pany statement.
when Tullow’s two-year contracts for truck “By producing, transporting, storing and
transportation of oil from Turkana to Mombasa exporting crude from northern Kenya, the
expired. The company had been using trucks pilot scheme has provided proof of concept for
owned by three Kenyan companies (Primefuels oil production in the country,” he commented.
Kenya, Multiple Hauliers and Oilfield Movers) “The first export of crude oil from East Africa
to deliver the crude to the port of Mombasa, in 2019 was a historic achievement and demon-
where it could be transferred to tankers for strated the potential of Project Oil Kenya on
export. world markets.”
Initially, Tullow had planned to export about Tullow is working with Total (France) and
500,000 barrels of oil in this fashion. But accord- Africa Oil (Canada) to develop Blocks 10BA,
ing to Martin Mbogo, Tullow Kenya’s managing 10BB and 13T in Kenya. Equity in the project
director, it still has about 185,000 barrels left in is split 50% to Tullow, 25% to Total and 25% to
storage at the Mombasa refinery and is working Africa Oil. ™
to determine its next steps.
“The decision on the way forward on the
stored crude is subject to discussions between
the government and joint venture partners,” he
told Bloomberg by telephone last week.
Tullow’s Kenyan operations have been dis-
rupted repeatedly within the last few months. In
late December and early January, protest actions
and bad weather made the Ortum-Sabit section
of the overland route between Turkana and
Mombasa impassable. Then in April, the com-
pany declared force majeure on its upstream
operations. It justified this move by citing fall-
out from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pan-
demic, which has sharply reduced world energy
demand. Tullow’s assets lie in western Kenya (Image: Tullow Oil)

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