Namibia Sees TotalEnergies and Shell Oil Projects Starting Production in 4 years

Maersk Drilling's Maersk Voyager drillship was used to make TotalEnergies' Venus discovery offshore Namibia. Photo from Maersk Drilling.
Maersk Drilling's Maersk Voyager drillship was used to make TotalEnergies' Venus discovery offshore Namibia. Photo from Maersk Drilling.

 Oil discoveries by TotalEnergies and Shell off the coast of Namibia could start production in four years, Namibia Energy Minister Tom Alweendo said at a conference in Dakar on Thursday.

Alweendo said Namibia had agreed with the companies that they should start production as fast as possible.

 (Reuters - Reporting by Bate Felix/Writing by Alessandra Prentice; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)


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