A report by S&P Global Commodity Insights has said that Dangote Group is looking to start production at its two Nigerian oil assets in the fourth quarter of 2024, after enduring months of crude supply woes.
The company would reportedly commence production at its two Niger Delta upstream projects in Oil Mining Leases 71 and 72, starting with about 20,000 barrels per day before ramping up further in the first quarter of 2025.
The report quoting company sources said Dangote is seeking a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel with a capacity of 650,000 barrels of crude.
“The company source said production at the company’s two Niger Delta upstream projects in Oil Mining Leases 71 and 72 would start at around 20,000 b/d, before ramping up further in the first quarter of 2025,” the report said.
The company, it was learnt, holds an 85 per cent stake in West African E&P Venture, which in turn has a 45 per cent working interest in the two blocks, alongside the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Company’s 55 per cent.
The other stakeholder in West African E&P is Nigerian upstream player, First E&P, which operates OMLs 71 and 72.
“The licences are located in the shallow water in the southeast of the troubled Niger Delta, just 22 km from the onshore Bonny terminal. They contain the Kalaekule and Koronama oilfields.
“Discoveries were first made on the blocks in 1966, and Shell began production there two decades later. Output peaked at 21,000 b/d in 1999, before declining in 2003,” S&P explained.
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