Côte d’Ivoire’s state-owned oil refinery, the biggest in French-speaking West Africa with a refining capacity of 3.8m tonnes, could help generate revenues through exports to neighbouring countries. A conservative estimation puts production from the new block at 150, 000 bpd, says Robin Mills, CEO of Dubai-based consultancy Qamar Energy.
Does Ivory Coast have oil?
Ivory Coast has struck oil just as much of the developed world has begun to call time on fossil fuels and some financial institutions are reluctant to take carbon-emitting projects on to their balance sheets.
Did Côte d’Ivoire find a’major’ offshore oil & gas discovery?
Côte d’Ivoire announced a “major” offshore oil and gas discovery on Wednesday after “very promising” exploration results in 2014 led to interest from several oil majors. Italian energy group Eni said it had found up to 2bn barrels of oil and 2.4trn cubic feet of associated gas.
Why did Eni invest in Ivory Coast gas?
Alessandro Puliti, Eni’s chief operating officer for natural resources, said the Ivorian discovery met the Italian company’s criteria for investment. This was partly because the associated gas could be fed into existing infrastructure that already supplied Ivory Coast with 60 per cent of its electricity, he said.