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AfrOil: Total launches Zinia Phase 2 project

France’s Total has launched the second stage of development work at Zinia, a section of Block 17 offshore Angola.

In a joint statement with Angola’s National Oil, Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANPG), Total reported that it had brought the Zinia Phase 2 short-cycle project on stream. It said it had reached this milestone on schedule after “more than 3mn man-hours of work, of which 2mn were performed in Angola, without any incident.” Capital expenditures came in at 10% below the budgeted amount, resulting in savings of $150mn, it added.

Total did not reveal initial production rates, but it noted that Zinia Phase 2 was slated to see yields peak at 40,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil in mid-2022. The project will encompass the drilling of nine new wells at the field, it said, and all of these wells will be tied in to the Pazflor, a floating production, storage and off-loading (FPSO) unit that is handling oil from four fields in the eastern section of Block 17.