Equatorial Guinea energy outlook suffers double blow this week
Published by Joseph Green,
Editor
LNG Industry,
Bloomberg is reporting that OPEC member Equatorial Guinea suffered a double blow to its ambition of revitalising its energy industry.
The International Energy Agency said on 5 March the West African nation’s crude production is on a “downward slope,” with capacity expected to drop 15% over the next six years to 110 000 bpd. That is little more than a third of its peak output of 300 000 bpd in 2004.
Equatorial Guinea hopes the acquisition by Kosmos Energy Ltd. and Trident Energy Management Ltd. of fields operated by Hess Corp. will stem a decline in production after years of under-investment. Still, government plans to stimulate spending by exploration licensees such as Exxon Mobil Corp and Ophir Energy Plc took a blow on 8 March.
Ophir said first output from its Fortuna LNG project would be delayed until 2022, from the second half of 2020, as the company struggled to secure financing.
The project, with almost enough resources to meet the UK’s gas demands for a year, would position Equatorial Guinea as a “real LNG hub in West Africa with the ability to send supply in all directions,” Ophir Chief Executive Officer Nick Cooper said on 7 March. While the country has been an LNG producer for more than a decade, Fortuna would become a “stepping stone into becoming a pivotal part of the LNG world, and therefore has a very high priority for the government,” he said.
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