Total gets exploration block off Cameroon

March 16, 2006
Cameroon has awarded the Bomana exploration block in the offshore Rio Del Rey basin to Total SA, which will be operator with a 100% interest.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Mar. 16 -- Cameroon has awarded the Bomana exploration block in the offshore Rio Del Rey basin to Total SA, which will be operator with a 100% interest.

The 140-sq-km block is near other Cameroon blocks Total operates, producing about 60,000 b/d of oil.

Total operates the Rio Del Rey permit, in which Pecten Cameroon Co. and state-owned Ste. Nationale des Hydrocarbures also hold interests.

And it was awarded the Dissoni exploration block in April 2005 (OGJ, Apr. 11, 2005, Newsletter).