Owowo West Oil Field (Nigeria)

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Owowo West Oil Field is a discovered oil field in Nigeria.

Owowo West Oil Field is also sometimes referred to as Owowo.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Owowo West Oil Field

¹Final Investment Decision
²If a country or region is known to not produce any hydrocarbons in an unconventional method, this production type is assumed to be conventional

Unit name	Status	Operator	Owner	Discovery year	FID1 year	Production start year	Production type2
Owowo West	Discovered	ExxonMobil	ExxonMobil (27.0%); Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) (27.0%); Nexen Petroleum Nigeria (18.0%); Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (10.0%); TotalEnergies E&P Nigeria Limited (18.0%)	2012	2027 (expected)	2030 (expected)	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Owowo West Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
liquids	resources	550	million bbl	2023	​
oil	recoverable resource	750	million bbl	2016	​

Location

Table 3: Field-level location details for Owowo West Oil Field

Concession/Block	Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
OML 139, OML 154	Unknown, Nigeria	Unknown	3.8333, 7.8265 (approximate)

The map below shows the approximate location of the field:

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