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The conversion project was carried out partially challenging environment due to COVID-19,
at the Lamprell shipyard in Dubai, and the unit supply chain disturbances, geopolitical tension
left the yard on August 8 following the com- and commodity inflation.”
pletion of the yard scope so that the remaining Dussafu is an 850-square km licence area
minor upgrades could be carried out offshore in located within the Ruche Exclusive Exploita-
preparation for departure. tion Area (Ruche EEA), another block offshore
The Hibiscus Alpha is one of two jack-up Gabon, in waters that average 116 metres in
rigs that BW Energy bought from Borr Drilling depth.
in 2020 for the purpose of conversion. It paid The block is home to six oil discovered oil-
$14.5mn for the cold-stacked rigs, both of which fields and multiple leads and prospects. Last
were built in 2003, and has devoted about 1.9mn year, it yielded some 11,300 barrels per day (bpd)
man-hours to the conversion programme thus on average, with 100% of production coming
far without any lost-time incidents (LTIs). from the Gamba horizon of the Tortue field.
Carl K. Arnet, BW Energy’s CEO, com- BW Energy has already begun Phase 1 and
mented: “By repurposing existing oil and gas 2 production at Dussafu, drilling a total of six
production assets, we extend their economic horizontal wells at the Tortue field. Its next drill-
lifespan and shorten the time to first oil while ing targets are the Hibiscus and Ruche field. The
also significantly reducing the field development company aims to drill four wells at Hibiscus and
investments and CO2 footprint. We are very two at Ruche, and all six of these will target the
pleased to have completed the conversion pro- Gamba horizon. Its partners in the project are
ject with excellent HSE results and only minor Panoro Energy (Norway) and the national oil
adjustments to schedule and budget in a highly company (NOC), Gabon Oil. ™

PASA confident that TotalEnergies will

submit development plan for Luiperd

SOUTH AFRICA PHINDILE Masangane, the CEO of Petroleum In an interview published by Bloomberg
Agency South Africa (PASA), has said she does on August 19, Masangane stated that she was
not expect TotalEnergies to let its licence for “very confident” that the French major would
Block 11B/12B, an offshore site that includes finish discussions with PetroSA, its govern-
the Luiperd natural gas and condensate fields, ment-owned partner, and submit a production
lapse as a deadline for submitting production plan for Luiperd in time to prevent its licence for
plans approaches. the block from expiring on September 6.

TotalEnergies has discovered gas and condensate at two fields within Block 11B/12B (Image: Africa Energy)

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