Eni Announces Start-up of Oil Production from Ochigufu Field in Offshore Angola
Monday 19 March 2018
Eni and Sonangol have started oil production from the Ochigufu project, in Block 15/06 of Angola’s deep offshore. The field will add 25,000 barrels to the current production levels.
The Ochigufu field is located in 1300 m of water depth in Angola’s deep offshore, at approximately 150 km west from Soyo and 380 km North West from Luanda. The wells are connected subsea to the Sangos production system and from there tied in to the N’Goma FPSO (Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading) vessel in the West Hub of Block 15/06 (Eni 36,84%, Operator; Sonangol Pesquisa e Produção 36,84%; SSI Fifteen Limited 26,32%).
This start-up, achieved one and a half year from presentation of the Plan of Development, is the first for Eni in 2018 as well as the first start-up of the year in Angola. It represents a further step in the development of the prolific Block 15/06, where Eni discovered over 3 billion barrels of oil in place and 850 million barrels of reserves.