In the memorandum, the joint venture partners are expected to drill up to 20 additional wells in the Jubilee field over the extended licences’ life. Beyond crude output, the deal aims to nearly double volumes of gas supplied from the two offshore fields to about 130 million standard cubic feet per day.
“We have not received any new offers for the March window (delivery). Traders are asking us to wait. We are waiting to get offers,” Vetsa Ramakrishna Gupta told Reuters. “We are not expecting the similar number of cargoes that we used to get in the months of December and January,” he added.