The Prof John Evans Atta Mills has made it to the field after a five-week journey from the Tuas shipyard in Singapore, project operator Tullow wrote in a tweet on Thursday.

“First oil on track for July/August,” the London-listed Anglo-Irish independent tweeted.

The unit left the shipyard in late January, heading west across the Indian Ocean, rounding the southern tip of Africa before sailing up to Ghanaian waters.

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