Total extends Nigerian Usan field
Posted: 14 October 2003
Total announces that its Nigerian operating subsidiary, Elf Petroleum
Nigeria Ltd (EPNL), has made a significant extension of the Usan
field discovery in deepwater Oil Prospecting License (OPL) 222,
offshore southeastern Nigeria.
The Usan-4 appraisal well, located around 110 kilometres offshore
and 5 kilometres south of the Usan-1 well in water depths of approximately
750 metres, is the third successful appraisal of the Usan field
discovered in 2002.
Two zones were tested in the Usan-4 well and flowed at 4,400 and
6,300 barrels of oil per day under restricted flow conditions.
The well has confirmed the presence of commercial quantities of
oil, as well as additional potential in previously untested reservoirs.
Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC) is concessionaire for
OPL 222 under a production sharing contract operated by Elf Petroleum
Nigeria Ltd. (20 per cent), in partnership with Chevron Petroleum
Nigeria Ltd, Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria (Offshore East)
Ltd and Nexen Petroleum Nigeria Ltd.
For more information see http://www.total.com.
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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