Chad: Caracal Energy starts Badila oil field shipments 


Canadian junior Caracal Energy has announced the start of oil shipments from the Badila field. The production facilities were inaugurated on 9 June and, on 30 September, Caracal began pumping oil into the transportation system that connects the Badila field to the Chad-Cameroon export pipeline. Caracal’s joint venture partners are Société des Hydrocarbures du Tchad and Glencore Xstrata. Caracal will initially produce oil to fulfil the joint venture’s share of the line-fill, estimated at just over 450,000 barrels, after which it can accumulate oil for sale.