Anadarko vice president of LNG marketing Steve Hoyle says: “We have taken 12 Tcf of gas from Area 1 Tcf and 12 Tcf from Area 4, on a 50:50 basis, and those two buckets of gas will go as a common stream into the initial four-train liquefied natural gas scheme.”

Hoyle explains there is not enough time to drill and test further appraisal wells on Prosperidade-Mamba to generate the data needed to underpin a full unitisation agreement.

“We