{"id":13287,"date":"2023-02-03T14:37:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T14:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=13287"},"modified":"2023-02-14T14:45:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T14:45:32","slug":"uganda-kingfisher-project-drilling-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/uganda-kingfisher-project-drilling-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"UGANDA: Kingfisher Project Drilling Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kingfisher oil field is about 15kms long and 3kms wide and is about 2kms below Lake Albert. It is estimated to have a total of 560M barrels of crude oil in place, out of which, 190 million barrels of oil (33%) is expected to be produced over a 20-25-year period.<\/p>\n<p>It has 31 oil wells. Of these, 20 are production while 11 will be used to inject water to boost production.<\/p>\n<p>Kingfisher will produce 40,000 barrels of crude oil per day for five years, after which production will decline. To maintain the plateau, production will then include Waraga, Mputa and Nzizi oil fields in Kaiso Tonya, a few kilometers from Kingfisher.<\/p>\n<p>Following the announcement of the Final Investment Decision (FID) early last year, CNOOC Uganda Limited (28.33%), UNOC (15%) and TotalEnergies (56.67%) ramped up activity with the tier one contractors.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2022, a rig was shipped to Uganda and has since been hoisted atop Kingfisher\u2019s Well Pad 2 where construction had started earlier in the year.<br \/>\nOn January 24th, 2023-history was made when drilling was launched, erecting a milestone on Uganda oil and gas journey ahead of first oil in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Chief guest, H.E. President Yoweri Museveni hailed the joint venture partners for the impressive progress on the projects. He reaffirmed commitment to continue with the projects.<\/p>\n<p>The President said that the projects would help to address some of the environmental challenges through production of liquified petroleum gas (LPG). A total of 200,000 metric tonnes of LPG from the upstream and a refinery in Hoima, will reduce reliance on charcoal and firewood.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda, he pointed out, had made the right decision to acquire expertise through training (of citizens) before embarking on exploration.<br \/>\nChinese Ambassador to Uganda, H.E. Zhang Lizhong reiterated his government\u2019s commitment to ensuring that Ugandans benefit from the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the case of CNOOC Uganda Limited, they and their contractors have already employed more than 3,500 local workers. The amount regarding contracts awarded to Ugandan companies has reached 61 million dollars (excludes sub-contracts value),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the other hand, CNOOC Uganda Limited has delivered training programs to more than 300 oil and gas business contractors and about 3,000 oil and gas personnel.\u201d<br \/>\nPAU Executive Director, Ernest Rubondo said the rig-LR8001-was specially designed for the Kingfisher project. PAU is the sub-sector regulator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has the capacity to drill up to eight kilometers long with noise suppressing technology making it more environmentally friendly. The wells to be drilled in the Kingfisher field will vary from 2600 metres to 7400 metres in length depending on how far the targeted reservoir is from the location where drilling will start,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>On environment protection, he said PAU was \u201cworking with\u201d the National Environment Management Authority and other agencies to \u201censure the strictest environmental and safety practices and technology in the planning execution and decommissioning of the oil and gas projects in Uganda including the Kingfisher project.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen drilling is completed, production tubing is installed and a well is suspended ahead of production.<\/p>\n<p>Drilling for Tilenga, the sister oil and gas project, is expected soon following the arrival and ongoing assembling of a rig. Two more drilling rigs for Tilenga are on the way.<\/p>\n<p>While the winding tarmac road ends at Buhuka, Uganda\u2019s journey to oil and gas will continue into the foreseeable future with benefits for the country and citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unoc.co.ug\/kingfisher-project-drilling-launched\/\">UNOC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kingfisher oil field is about 15kms long and 3kms wide and is about 2kms below Lake Albert. It is estimated to have a total of 560M barrels of crude &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/uganda-kingfisher-project-drilling-launched\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":13288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7442,7443],"tags":[476,9233,5735,9339,2603,6728],"class_list":["post-13287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-eastern-africa","tag-cnooc","tag-kingfisher-project","tag-pau","tag-totalenergies","tag-uganda","tag-unoc","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Uganda-UNOC-Rig-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-3sj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11726,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/uganda-jv-to-announce-eacop-kingfisher-tilenga-projects-final-investment-decision\/","url_meta":{"origin":13287,"position":0},"title":"Uganda JV to announce EACOP, Kingfisher &#038; Tilenga Projects Final Investment Decision","author":"","date":"January 31, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The joint venture partners in Uganda's Tilenga and East Africa Crude Oil Projects Total Energies, CNOOC and state-owned UNOC are expected to announce reaching the final investment decision tomorrow two months after CNOOC reached FID on the Kingfisher project. 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