The location in the Andean foothills is remote, the topography and drilling challenges are extreme, and the area is a sensitive ecosystem that is home to numerous indigenous communities.
Despite it all, Total announced last year that seven years after drilling the AQI-X1001 exploration well and more than a decade after drilling the 5600-metre deep ICS-X1 discovery well, production had begun at the massive Incahuasi gas project in Bolivia.
