Country Nigeria Offshore/onshore Onshore Producing formations Agbada formations | Block OML29 Partners NNPC | |
Operators Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company Partner Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation | ||
OML 29 is also known as Oil Mining Licence 29. Oil Mining Licence OML is one of the two types of licences issued to oil producers in Nigeria "with validity periods ranging from 5 to 20 years respectively." OML29 is a large block located in the southeastern Niger Delta containing 11 oil and gas fields. OML29 stretches over an area of 983 square kilometres. It includes the Nembe Oil Field, Santa Barbara Oil Field and Okoroba Oil Fields. It also include related facilities like the Nembe Creek Trunk Line NCTL. A 100 kilometres long pipeline with a capacity of 600 thousand barrels per day.
Contents
Historical overview
The initial lease was granted by the Federal Government of Nigeria to Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in 1964 and renewed after twenty-five (25) years in July 1989, for a term of thirty (30) years expiring in June 2019. OML29 licence was formally held by Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd Joint Venture (SPDC), comprising Total E&P Nigeria Limited and Nigerian Agip Oil Company Limited. "Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production (E&P) Company Limited, a subsidiary of Aiteo Group acquired (OML) 29 and the Nembe Creek Trunk Line (NCTL) and related facilities in the Eastern Niger Delta from the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) at $1.7 billion."
Production
OML29 consists of 9 fields including the iconic Oloibiri Oilfield (1st Commercial Oil Discovery in Nigeria) and holds 2.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent, BOE, while Its hydrocarbon fields could deliver as much as 160,000 barrels of oil per day, and 300 million standard cubic feet of gas per day (mmsc/d) at peak output. It has 240,000 barrels of oil per day and 50 MMscf/d of installed production capacity most of which have been impacted by sabotage, vandalism and theft within the Niger Delta Region. OML29 is currently producing from three fields (Nembe, Santa Barbara and Odeama Creeks) with over 120 kbopd production potential.
OML29 produced around 43,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (100 per cent) in 2014. Wood Mackenzie, a global leader in commercial intelligence for the energy, metals and mining industries describes OML29 as “the biggest producing onshore oil field in the ‘SPDC/ NNPC’ JV”, and produced on average, around the equivalent of 43,000 barrels of oil per day during 2014.
According to the Africa Oil & Gas Report, OML29 "averaged about 50,000BOPD, (22,500BOPD Net to AITEO) until mid 2015, and has now gone down to 35,000BOPD".