LONDON--Tullow Oil PLC (TLW.LN) Wednesday said it remains on
track to deliver average net production of 80,000 to 84,000 barrels
of oil equivalent for the full year, boosted by increasing
production from its Jubilee oil field in Ghana.
MAIN FACTS:
-Year to date financials are in line with expectations.
-Forecast capital expenditure for 2012 remains in the region of
$2.0 billion.
-As of Oct. 31, net debt is approximately $0.9 billion and
unutilized debt capacity is $2.2 billion.
-On Oct. 31, Tullow finalized arrangements for the refinancing
of its $3.5 billion Reserves Based Lending credit facilities,
extending final maturity from 2015 to 2019.
-Jubilee field production capacity has been enhanced and is
expected to exceed 90,000 barrels of oil per day, or bopd, (gross)
by year-end, while the Plan of Development for the TEN project has
now been submitted to the Government of Ghana.
-The acid stimulation of certain Phase 1 production wells in the
Jubilee field has proven to be successful and gross production has
increased from 63,000 bopd at the middle of 2012 to a recent
production rate of around 85,000 bopd, in line with
expectations.
-By the end of the year, an additional Phase 1A producer is
expected to be brought on line and a further acid stimulation on a
Phase 1 well is expected to be completed.
-This work is expected to take gross Jubilee production above
90,000 bopd by the end of the year and capacity production for the
FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading vessel) is
expected to be reached in the first half of 2013 as further Phase
1A production and injection wells come on line.
-In Kenya, the second exploration well in the Lockichar Basin
has successfully encountered oil, further de-risking the basin.
-Additional exploration drilling and testing results across
significant Kenyan and Ethiopian acreage position are expected
before the end of the year.
-The Zaedyus-2 well is currently drilling offshore French Guiana
following up on last year's basin opening discovery.
-Production performance elsewhere in West & North Africa is
in line with expectations.
-Tullow has also entered into an exclusive negotiation with
Hyperdynamics Corporation in respect of a potential farm-in by
Tullow into a concession offshore Guinea.
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