France-based TotalEnergies has announced that two new offshore projects have begun production in Angola.
The new projects add an extra 60,000 barrels per day (bpd) to the country’s overall production. What’s more, the new projects use subsea tiebacks to existing floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels. By leveraging these vessels’ existing capacity, the new projects produce oil at a low carbon intensity and low marginal cost.
The BEGONIA inter-block project is operated by TotalEnergies. It was realised thanks to sound collaboration between the concession holders of Block 17 and Block 17/06. It marks the first active project in the latter block with a capacity of 30,000 bpd. The five wells are connected by a subsea tieback to the PAZFLOR FPSO.
The second project is the CLOV Phase 3, which builds on previous successful projects in Block 17. TotalEnergies also operates the block with a 38% interest, while its partners include ExxonMobil, the maker of the Mobil SHC gear oil and other lubricant products. This will produce 30,000 bpd from four wells through a tieback to the CLOV FPSO.
TotalEnergies’ exploration and production President, Nicolas Terraz, said the company:
“…continues to actively deliver its low-cost and low-emissions developments to grow its upstream production by more than 3% in 2025. With BEGONIA and CLOV Phase 3, we are leveraging available production capacity in existing FPSOs of Block 17 (PAZFLOR and CLOV) while reducing costs and emissions.”
The production from the new projects will help keep Angola’s overall oil production over a million bpd.
