A second important discovery of crude oil and natural gas has just been made in Côte d’Ivoire by the Italian oil company Eni and its partner PETROCI Holding, according to a press release from the Minister of Mines, Petroleum and Energy.
This is block CI-802 adjacent to block CI-101 in which a first discovery was made in 2021, by the same consortium, said the press release relayed Thursday by the Ivorian Press Agency.
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This new discovery, which confirms the extension of the Baleine deposit in block CI-802, increases the initially announced reserves of said deposit by around 25%, increasing from 2 to 2.5 billion barrels of crude oil and by 2 400 to 3,300 billion cubic feet of natural gas.
The new discovery, which further enhances the potential of the Ivorian sedimentary basin, notes the press release, reassures the Eni and PETROCI Holding consortium, which is committed to the accelerated production of the Baleine deposit in the first half of 2023, i.e. around a year and a half later. the first discovery.
With MAP