Oil production from Ghana’s Sankofa-Gye Nyame oil field, is expected to commence in the second quarter of 2017 while production of gas is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2018.
Africa-focused Lekoil is expected to begin commercial oil production from Nigeria’s Otakikpo marginal field during October, following the completion of the Otakikpo-003 well.
Saudi Arabia has offered to reduce oil production if rival Iran agrees to cap its output at the current level 3.6mb/d, in a major compromise ahead of talks in Algeria by the end of September.
Ghana could become the fourth biggest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa by 2020 once two new offshore fields come on stream, to push total output above 240,000b/d.
Upstream assets in Algeria, Iraq and Malaysia have pushed oil and gas production by Indonesia's Pertamina Internasional Eksplorasi and Produksi (PIEP) to surpass its target in 2016 by 15%.
The Iraqi Oil Marketing Company (SUMO) announced that the country's crude oil production in August remained steady at 4.638mb/d compared with 4.632mb/d in July.
Pipeline vandals and oil thieves have lost Nigeria 560,000 barrels of crude to the refineries as feedstock and 109m litres of petroleum products between January and May 2016. The country's national budget was based o ...