Angola: Mafumeira Sul start-up

Sonangol EP announced the start on 31 October of the early production system on the south wellhead platform of the Mafumeira Sul project. The Chevron-operated project is located about 24km off the coast of Malongo in water depths of about 60 metres. It includes a central processing facility, two wellhead platforms, 121km of subsea pipelines, 34 producing wells and 16 water injection wells. The facility has a design capacity of 150,000 b/d of liquids and 350mcf/d of natural gas per day.