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TechnipFMC wins $250mn contract from

TotalEnergies for work offshore Angola

ANGOLA NEW York-listed TechnipFMC has secured a TechnipFMC did not disclose the exact value
contract worth up to $250mn for work at Giras- of the contract awarded by TotalEnergies. How-
sol, an oilfield at Block 17 offshore Angola. ever, it noted in its statement that it defined a
Under the contract, the engineering and con- “significant” contract as having a value between
struction company will supply flexible pipes and $75mn and $250mn.
associated hardware to TotalEnergies (France), The company announced the contract award
the operator of Block 17. The French major will shortly after TotalEnergies temporarily shut
use the equipment to support its “first subsea life down production at Dalia, another section of
extension project” at Girassol, TechnipFMC said Block 17, for maintenance work. The Dalia field
in a statement. produces about 120,000 bpd of oil. The National
The project is designed to extend the Giras- Agency for Oil, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG),
sol oilfield’s operating life by bypassing the rigid Angola’s upstream regulator, has stated that the
bundles of pipe that were installed before pro- shutdown will last until March 26. ™
duction began in 2001, the company explained.
The additional subsea hardware will help boost
the field’s output, thereby generating substan-
tial returns for TotalEnergies and its partners,
it added.
The Girassol field, which opened up Angola’s
deepwater Congo basin play, was discovered in
1996. It hosts the first floating production, stor-
age and off-loading (FPSO) vessel ever deployed
in Angola’s offshore zone and is the first field to
be developed at Block 17, which has been a pro-
lific site for major discoveries. Three additional
FPSOs have subsequently been deployed at the
block – namely, the Dalia, Pazflor and CLOV
vessels. The Girassol oilfield has been in production since 1996 (Image: TotalEnergies)

Invictus Energy to drill second

gas exploration well in Q3 2023

ZIMBABWE INVICTUS Energy has started an appraisal of “Preliminary processing of the side wall cores
its second exploration well in Zimbabwe and obtained in the Mukuyu-1 well have also pro-
expects to begin drilling in Q3 2023, according vided further encouragement for the company,”
to a company statement. he said. “Additional fluorescence observed in
The ASX-traded junior spudded its first, and the upper Pebbly Arkose reservoir sections
Zimbabwe’s first, oil well, Mukuyu-1, in Sep- has increased the gross interval with hydrocar-
tember 2022 and confirmed a working hydro- bon charge throughout the Pebbly Arkose and
carbon system on the permit in northeastern Upper Angwa to 1,500 metres and substan-
Zimbabwe. tially expands the play interval in the Cabora
Invictus’ managing director Scott Macmillan Bassa Basin. Following success at Mukuyu-1/
said in a release dated February 24 that the com- ST1, which confirmed a working hydrocarbon
pany will, when working on Mukuyu-2, draw system in the basin, we have received industry
lessons from the successful Mukuyu-1/ST1 well interest to participate in the Cabora Bassa Pro-
to optimise the well design for the drilling con- ject and the company is considering a range
ditions encountered and the ability to evaluate of options to manage forward exploration,
multiple hydrocarbon bearing intervals. appraisal and development programmes.”

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