“Even before FEED is concluded we shall be looking at issuing engineering, procurement and construction tenders and these should be out in July, just to get the cost of the original scoping by Doris Engineering,” said Rialto managing director Jeff Schrull.

A clutch of fields in the Upper & Lower Cenomanian horizons are in focus on Block CI-202, with Gazelle starting in first at a cost of $350 million for the gas gathering facility and four production wells.

Abidjan-based