Altera Infrastructure has been awarded contracts for the redeployment of the FPSO Voyageur Spirit and the shuttle tanker Nordic Brasilia for the Baleine Phase 2 project, located offshore Ivory Coast.
Ivory Coast’s Minister of Mines, Petroleum and Energy, Mamadou Sangafowa Coulibaly, has announced the country’s plans to fast-track the development of gas reserves in Blocks CI-523 and CI-525. The aim of these plans is to strengthen the resilience of the local electricity market through the provision of gas-fired power generation.
The Ivorian government – through the Ministry of Mines, Petroleum and Energy, electric utility CI-Energies and National Oil Company Petroci – has signed a contract with global oil and gas major Eni for the supply of natural gas sourced from blocks CI-101 and CI-802 in the Baleine field.
Oilfield services company Baker Hughes has secured a contract from oil and gas supermajor, Eni, and state-owned National Oil Company, Petroci, to deploy its deepwater technology for the multi-phase Baleine project, offshore Ivory Coast.
Italian company Eni has authorization to start works in the Ivory Coast Baleine–or Whale–oil and gas field in the second half of the year, according to a government statement read on state-run Radio Television Ivoirienne on Friday.
Italian energy company Eni has made a second oil and gas discovery offshore from Ivory Coast in less than a year, raising the country’s profile as a producer and increasing the fossil fuel resources found in the area by about 25%.