The Tweneboa Enyenra Ntomme Oil Field is an

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within

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

's territorial waters and the country's second major oil field after the

Jubilee Oil Field The Jubilee Oil Field is an oil field located off the coast of the Ghana's Western Region in the South Atlantic Ocean under the ownership of the Kosmos Energy, Occidental Petroleum and the Tullow Oil. The Jubilee field is located 60 km o ...

. It is popularly known as the TEN oil field, an

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formed from the three drilling fields that it comprises. Coincidentally, the exploration for oil in the basin also started with ten pre-first oil wells.

History

The Tweneboa Enyenra Ntomme Oil Field was discovered in 2009 by Tullow Oil. It is in the Deepwater Tano license, which covers an area of more than and lies around west of Tullow's Jubilee Oil Field. Equity partners of the Deepwater Tano block are Tullow (49.95%),

Kosmos Energy Kosmos Energy is an American upstream oil company founded and based in Dallas, Texas. While previously incorporated in Bermuda, Kosmos has reincorporated in Delaware. The company holds production and development operations offshore Ghana, Equato ...

(18%),

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(18%), PetroSA (4.05%), and the

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(GNPC) with 15%. Development and appraisal of the three deep wells started in 2013 after the license was granted in 2012.

Production

The Tweneboa Enyenra Ntomme Oil Field began oil production on August 18, 2016. The official ceremony to start production was performed by John Dramani Mahama, the

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at the time, when he opened the production valve on the Floating Production Storage and Offloading Vessel FPSO ''John Evans Atta Mills''. The first production phase produced 23,000 barrels of oil daily till the end 2016 and is projected to be 80,000 barrels per day afterwards. The final phase of the project will have 24 wells in total with a mixture of water injection, gas injection and production wells. Forecasts showed that the TEN Oil Field will produce about 300 million

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over a 20-year period, 80% of which will be oil and 20% gas. The field will produce 80,000 barrels of oil and 180 million standard cubic foot of gas per day when it reaches full production. The entire project is expected to cost US$4.8 billion.

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History

Production

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