French oil major TotalEnergies has launched a sale of its minority stake in a Nigerian oil three means partnership. According to the firm, they want to focus on deep-water fields away from the difficulties of working in shut proximity with local communities.
The company is promoting its curiosity in thirteen onshore fields and 3 in shallow water, producing over 20,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. The sale contains infrastructure such as three,500 km of pipelines connecting to 2 key crude export terminals, Bonny and Forcados. pressure gauge หน้าปัด 2 นิ้ว will hold OMLs(oil mining licences) 23 and 28 and its curiosity in the associated gasoline pipeline network that feeds Nigeria LNG.
Shift to deep-water fields
“Disruption of native communities are sources of nice concern in the nation. We have appointed Canada’s Scotiabank to steer the sale as the monetary adviser to the transaction,” said Patrick Pouyanne, TotalEnergies chief government.
TotalEnergies is the latest multinational to give up its onshore asset for deep-water fields. Mele Kyari, the group managing director, Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited had in February mentioned International oil firms are leaving Nigeria and shifting their portfolios to the place they will add worth to the journey in direction of carbon net-zero dedication.
Last year, Royal Dutch Shell introduced its plan to dump onshore Nigerian oil property in a bid to move to cleaner power. It said it was discussing with the federal government to promote its onshore oil belongings in the country.
Also, Seplat Energy in February introduced it had entered into a contract with ExxonMobil, to buy Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited’s whole oil property in Nigeria. That consists of all of Exxon’s complete shallow water property in the Niger Delta.
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November 3, 2023
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