By
Morkporkpor Anku, GNA
Accra, Oct. 23, GNA – Management of Tullow Oil
Ghana Limited has said it will drill up to eight infill wells in 2019.
Mr Kweku Awotwi, the Managing Director,
Tullow- Ghana, said the rig agreements gives the company maximum flexibility to
optimise the drilling schedule as the wells come on-stream and “we can assess their
performance compared to our pre-drill estimates.”
Mr Awotwi was speaking during the company’s
turn of the facts behind the figures programme of the Ghana Stock Exchange in
Accra.
Since, Tullow and its partners commenced the
delivery of the Jubilee project in record time of 40 months, they have invested
$16 billion in Ghana delivering around 180,000 barrel of oil per day of
production with the potential to deliver more, he said.
He said the overall objective across both
fields was to maximise and sustain plateau production, adding that “we need to
drill wells to fill both Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) to
their maximum capacity and then sustain it”.
He said the company has had good results from
the drilling programme so far with all wells being delivered on time and within
budget.
Mr Awotwi said management made the decision to
bring in a second FPSO to accelerate the tie-in of new wells and they would
have five new wells online around the end of the year; two at Tweneboa,
Enyenra, Ntomme (TEN) and three at Jubilee.
He said this would enable the company to
increase production at TEN to round 80,000 barrels of oil per day and sustain
Jubilee at over 100,000 barrel oil per day.
The Managing Director said “we are keen to
play our part in the current licensing round and we see opportunities for
Tullow right across the acreage that is available and we firmly believe and
will be making a case to government that we have the skills, expertise,
knowledge and history of success to make another major exploration impact in
Ghana”.
On Tullow’s contribution to Ghana, he said the
Oil and Gas Industry currently contributes around six per cent of Ghana’s Gross
Domestic Product, which was a strong but not overwhelming contribution in a
mixed economy like Ghana’s.
“And that contribution comes in different
forms including taxes and royalties, production entitlement to government as
well as employment and training of Ghanaians as well indirect and multiplier
effects on the economy,” he added.
He said in many ways, Ghana provided a model
for how to successfully integrate a new industry like oil and gas into a modern
and growing economy.
Mr Les Wood, the Chief Financial Officer,
Tullow-Ghana said “we have a much improved balance sheet and a much improved
macro-economic environment”.
He said over the next 12 months, the company
needs to deliver in both West Africa reproduction and in East Africa
redevelopment and; “we need to make sure our exploration campaigns have every
chance of success.”
GNA