Chevron produces first oil at new platform offshore Angola
Chevron Corp. delivered first oil from the South N’dola platform in Block 0 offshore Angola in December.
The South N’dola project includes the wellhead platform with a jacket weighing about 1,100 tons and topsides weighing about 600 tons. The platform, assembled in Cuanza Sul and Cabinda provinces, comprises about 12 production wells forecast to produce about 25,000 b/d of oil and 50 MMscfd of gas.
The start of production comes just over 2 years after construction on the platform began, the company said in a Dec. 29 update.
The platform is tied to to Mafumeira complex infrastructure via a 15-km production pipeline. A deck extension to the Mafumeira production and processing platform receives South N’dola production and moves it through the Mafumeira processing system, utilizing existing available processing capacity. Hydrocarbon resources will be delivered to the Malongo terminal and associated gas to Angola LNG.
Chevron, through subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Co. Ltd., operates two offshore tracts in Angola, Block 0 (39.2%) adjacent to the Cabinda province coastline, and deepwater Block 14.
