Akpo field offshore Nigeria reported to be onstream
2009.03.05 -
Projects
Nigeria's Akpo offshore oilfield, operated by French oil major Total, began production this week, a senior official with state-run oil firm NNPC said on Thursday. "It started production in the last two or three days," the NNPC official told Reuters. He declined to say how much it was producing.
Total has a 24 percent stake in Akpo, with Brazil's state-run oil firm Petrobras and NNPC also equity holders.
A Petrobras senior executive told Reuters last month the oilfield should ramp up production to around 185,000 barrels per day by September or October.
Discovered in 2000, the Akpo gas and condensate field is located around 200 kilometers offshore Port Harcourt in water depths ranging from 1,100 to 1,700 meters. The field development plan calls for 22 subsea producing wells, 20 water injection wells and two gas injection wells, subsea tied back to a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel with a storage capacity of 2 million barrels.
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