A unit of Total SA is installing four platforms on Ofon oil field offshore Nigeria in a second phase of development that will triple production to 90,000 boe/d (OGJ Online, July 24, 2007).
A unit of Total SA is installing four platforms on Ofon oil field offshore Nigeria in a second phase of development that will triple production to 90,000 boe/d (OGJ Online, July 24, 2007).
The new phase—comprising two production platforms, a processing platform, and an accommodation platform—mostly will accommodate recovery, compression, and transport of associated natural gas. Production is to begin in 2014.
Ofon is on Oil Mining Lease 102, 65 km offshore in 40 m of water. Total has made other discoveries in the area (OGJ Online, Nov. 7, 2011).
Bob Tippee has been chief editor of Oil & Gas Journal since January 1999 and a member of the Journal staff since October 1977. Before joining the magazine, he worked as a reporter at the Tulsa World and served for four years as an officer in the US Air Force. A native of St. Louis, he holds a degree in journalism from the University of Tulsa.
