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“This could not have been achieved without the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) field off-
hard work and dedication of our employees and shore Ghana. TEN yielded some 50,900 bpd of
contractors and support from and close co-op- oil on average in the first half of 2020, and the
eration with the government of Ghana and our two FPSOs reported average uptime rates of
partners,” he said. more than 95% during the same period, accord-
“Tullow Ghana thanks all stakeholders – ing to Tullow’s statement.
including the government of Ghana, its joint Tullow acquired its stakes in Jubilee and TEN
venture partners, contractors and suppliers, its in 2004, via its purchase of South Africa-based
host communities, its staff and the people of Energy Africa.
Ghana – for their collaboration and support in Since then, the fields have become the com-
reaching this important milestone,” he added. pany’s largest productive assets. They have also
The company is using a floating production, been a source of frustration, however. Earlier
storage and off-loading (FPSO) unit known this year, Tullow reported a decline in reserves
as the Kwame Nkrumah to extract crude at Enyenra and said that Ghana National Gas
oil from Jubilee. Meanwhile, it has installed Co. (GNGC) was requesting lower volumes of
another FPSO, the John Evans Atta Mills, at the associated gas from Jubilee and TEN. ™

South Sudan attributes output

decline to challenges facing DPOC

SOUTH SUDAN SOUTH Sudan’s largest oil producer, a consor- But he also stated that DPOC’s troubles
tium known as Dar Petroleum Operating Co. stemmed partly from the geological particulari-
(DPOC), has recently seen production levels ties of its fields. “The challenge that we are facing
sink from 130,000 barrels per day to 115,000 in oil production is actually related to geological
bpd, according to Awow Daniel Chuang, the challenges because of the oilfields. We are pro-
country’s Petroleum Minister. ducing more water than oil,” he said.
Chuang indicated last week that declines The minister was also quoted as saying by
at DPOC’s fields in Upper Nile State had been the news agency that South Sudanese authori-
driving national output down. South Sudan has ties were looking for ways to address the prob-
seen yields drop from 170,000 bpd to 165,000 lem. “We want to go the technical way to get the
bpd within the last few months, he explained. right technologies that we can deploy for us to
Some of the drop stems from flooding in [extract] more oil,” he stated.
Upper Nile State, he said. “When the oilfields Even with the right tools, though, the coun-
are flooded, they [are] covered with water and try will still have difficulty pushing production
we cannot produce because we cannot access the back up to the higher levels that prevailed before
oil well,” Xinhua quoted him as saying. civil war broke out in 2011, Chuang added.

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