Eni starts production at Obiafu 41 in Nigeria

Eni reports that it started gas and condensate production from the Obiafu 41 discovery in the Niger Delta just three weeks after well completion. The discovery contains approximately 28bn cm of gas and 60mn barrels of condensate.

The company claims that this record time to market was made possible as a result of its new integrated model, under which the various disciplines work in parallel from the exploration phase, and all synergies with existing production facilities are properly leveraged. At the end of ramp-up, production will reach about 3mn cm/d of gas and 3,000 b/d of condensate.

Gas will be processed at the Eni-operated Ob-Ob plant, and then sent to the Okpai power plant, also operated by Eni. Okpai is Nigeria’s first independent power plant (IPP) and one of the most efficient ones in the country. It currently has an installed capacity of 500 MW and an upgrade is underway which will double its capacity to 1 GW. Once the upgrade is completed, Eni will generate 20% of the entire national electricity production, establishing itself as the leading electricity producer in Nigeria.