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CPECC, TotalEnergies sign

deal for Tilenga oilfield

UGANDA CHINA Petroleum Engineering & Construction Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC). Con-
Co. (CPECC) has signed a deal with TotalEner- struction activities at the site commenced in the
gies to construct ground facilities for Tilenga, second quarter of 2021, and first oil is scheduled
one of the two oilfields that will support the Lake for 2025.
Albert Development Project (LADP) in Uganda. CPECC has already partnered with China’s
Under the contract, the Beijing-based con- Offshore Oil Engineering Co. (COOEC) to con-
tractor will build two oil tanks, each with a struct the onshore facilities for the CNOOC-op-
capacity of 20,000 cubic metres, and several erated Kingfisher oilfield in the Albertine basin
other offsite facilities. CPECC expects to need of western Uganda. This work scope includes a
approximately 21 months to finish the work, and CPF with a crude processing capacity of 40,000
its contract includes a two-year operations and bpd, a pump station and well pads.
maintenance option. TotalEnergies’ Tilenga field is slated to come
Tilenga is being operated by TotalEnergies on stream around the same time as CNOOC’s
(France), and the French major has, in turn, Kingfisher field.
named a consortium set up by McDermott The two fields will eventually see their com-
International (US) and Sinopec International bined yields top 250,000 bpd, with 216,000 bpd
Petroleum Service Corp. (China) as its main flowing to world markets via the East Africa
contractors. Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). The balance will
Under the $2bn service contract with be directed to a 60,000-bpd refinery in Uganda,
TotalEnergies, the partners will be responsible which will turn out fuels for consumption in
for development of six oilfields and will drill 426 local and regional markets.
oil wells there, producing up to 200,000 barrels EACOP is the midstream component of
per day (bpd). To this end, they will set up 31 well LADP, a $10bn initiative that aims to monetise
pads connected to a central processing facility Uganda’s crude oil resources. It calls for the con-
(CPF) via buried flowlines. struction of a 1,443-km pipeline from Hoima
The Tilenga oilfield straddles the Buliisa and in western Uganda to Tanga, a port on Tanza-
Nwoya districts in the Lake Albert region and nia’s Indian Ocean coast. The pipeline will carry
is operated by TotalEnergies in partnership with oil from Tilenga and Kingfisher, and it will be
CNOOC International, a subsidiary of China heated to compensate for the waxy nature of the
National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), and crude.™

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