Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) hopes to see oil and gas flowing by that time, though a more realistic date for first oil is early 2011 after a number of delays in development plan approvals.

At a cost of $3.2 billion with an estimated 1.8 billion barrels of oil recoverable, Jubilee will be Ghana's first field development since the Saltpond field came onstream in the late 1970s.

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