“Our industry is used to meeting challenges,” Jean-Michel Lavergne, director general of Total E&P Angola, said at the World Petroleum Congress in Moscow.

The French supermajor has just recently kicked off production at its deep-water Clov field cluster project in Block 17, being developed using 34 subsea wells tied back via 180 kilometres of flowlines to a floating production, storage and offloading vessel with 1.8