Angola: Total announces Clov start-up

Total started up the Clov development on 12 June, bringing production from Block 17 to 700,000 b/d. After Girassol, Dalia and Pazflor, Clov is the fourth floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit on Block 17 (AE 278/11).The 160,000 b/d development links production from four fields – Cravo, Lirio, Orquidea and Violeta – with 34 wells and eight manifolds connected by 180km of subsea pipelines to an FPSO unit at water depths of 1,100 to 1,400 metres. The FPSO has a storage capacity of 1.8m barrels of oil.