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Ghana produced a total of 29 million barrels of oil from three offshore fields in the first six months of 2018, an increase of 19% over the same period in 2017, according to the Public Interest Committee and the responsibility (CEPP) formally responsible for overseeing the sector.
Of this volume, just under 12 million barrels were pumped from the Tullow oil-fired Jubilee deposit, a similar volume from the Tullow Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) adjacent deposit and over 5 million barrels of Sankofa Gye-Nyame deposit operated by Eni. oil and gas complex (SGN).
The average TEN production in the first half of last year was 65,040 barrels / day, almost parallel to the 65,775 barrels / day average, while SGN production more than doubled.
Gross gas production during the same period was estimated at 44.8 Bcf, up from 31.7 Bcf in the first half of 2017 and almost 14.7 Bcf. cubes of gas were sent to the Atuabo processing plant in the first half of last year.
The Ministry of Energy said last week that the previous government, led by President John Mahama, had pledged to take or pay with the SGN consortium 90% of all gas produced, but that the gas transportation infrastructure was insufficient to guarantee the market supply.
"Therefore, after taking office, the new government realized that Ghana would be required to pay monthly what would be initially unallocated gas, whether used or not, which would result in huge losses for the country. country."
Gas production can therefore be deferred, but if it does, we will have to pay the share of this gas to SGN's partners. So we decided to defer production from the GNPC, which brought the take-home volumes down to 140 million cubic feet a day.
The government has managed to reduce the price of gasoline from 10.15 dollars per million British thermal units to 7.89 dollars per million BTU, which allowed the country to save approximately $ 95 million per year in gas payments to SGN partners. "
Fishing activities pose other problems to production, according to the Petroleum Commission, which has recorded 17,822 forays into the security zones imposed around Jubilee, TEN and SGN over the past three years.
Fishermen usually tie their nets to the facilities, umbilicals and anchorages of the three FPSOs, entangling drilling equipment and sometimes cooking with open flames in the immediate vicinity of oil and gas production. Commission.
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