TotalEnergies has let a service contract to Schlumberger for drilling, completions, and production services for the Tilenga onshore oil development in Uganda.
The scope of the contract includes the provision of directional drilling services, upper completions, lower completions, artificial lift solutions, and wellheads for the development, which comprises six fields, which will be developed across 31 well pads connected to a 190,000-b/d central processing facility in Kasenyi, Uganda. A planned 426 wells will be in use at full production: 200 water-injection wells, 196 production wells, two polymer-pilot wells, and 28 reference wells (OGJ Online, June 11, 2021).
Final investment decision on the project was made in February 2022 (OGJ Online, Feb. 1, 2022).
Drilling activities are expected to begin in in this year’s fourth quarter.