Production has restarted on the Kwane Nkrumah FPSO (pictured) on Tullow Oil's giant Jubilee field offshore Ghana ahead of expectations.
The FPSO had suffered issues with its gas compressor late last month, resulting in a gas export outage from 3 July, and therefore curtailed oil production. Gas export resumed 3 August and steadily increased to about 100 MMscf/d, with oil production oil returning to pre-outage levels (average production in 2014 was 102,000 b/d).
The FPSO is stationed about 60km offshore Ghana, straddling the West Cape Three Points and Deepwater Tano licenses. The 3 billion bbl Jubilee field was discovered in 2007 by Kosmos Energy and came on stream in 2010.
Suriname (Tullow 30%).
Inpex's Spari-1 well in Block 31 offshore Suriname is being plugged and abandoned after no significant hydrocarbon shows were found, according to partner Tullow Oil.
The well, drilled to 3830m total depth in 52m water depth, found presence of the targeted Campanian turbidite sands.
Tullow also had a stake in E.ON's Salander well, offshore Norway, which is also being plugged and abandoned after being classified as a dry hole.
Seismic evaluation of the Tullow-operated Block 54 offshore Suriname is ongoing, with a 4000sq km 3D program to high-grade prospects for future selective drilling.
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