New discovery offshore Ghana

A gas and condensate discovery has been made on the Akoma exploration prospect in CTP Block 4 offshore Ghana by a consortium comprising Eni (operator, 42.469%), Vitol (33.975%), GNPC (10%), Woodfields Upstream (9.556%) and Explorco (4%).  At present, gross discovered volume ranges are under review but reportedly could be in excess of 550bn cf gas and 18mn barrels of condensate.

The exploration well Akoma-1X is located about 12 km north-west from the Sankofa hub, where the John Agyekum Kufuor FPSO is located. It is the first well drilled in CTP-Block 4.