Production only running at half of pipeline’s capacity

By Iain Esau

 27 January 2012 01:16 GMT

The capacity of the 1070-kilometre Chad-Cameroon pipeline is 225,000 barrels per day although production is currently running at just half this amount, averaging about 117,000 bpd in the first six months of 2011.

Tchad Oil Transportation, a joint venture between the government of Chad and ExxonMobil, Petronas and Chevron, controls the Chad section of the pipeline, while Cameroon Oil Transportation, under a similar joint venture arrangement, operates the Cameroon part of the line.

This important piece of West African infrastructure first handled oil in late 2003 when ExxonMobil and its two partners brought on stream their Miandoum field in the Doba licence

After the supermajor’s Kome and Bolobo discoveries were developed, production peaked in 2005 at close to 175,000 bpd.

Since then, output…

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