Ghana: Tullow close to TEN start-up

Tullow Oil aims to start up the $4bn Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) project within weeks, and has come up with a long-term solution to production problems at Jubilee.In a 30 June trading statement, Tullow said TEN was expected to deliver first oil “within the next three to six weeks”. Hook-up and commissioning of the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel is nearing completion, and oil production is expected to reach the 80,000 b/d capacity around year-end as the facilities complete performance testing and the initial ten wells are brought up to optimum rates.