Congo’s Boatou Marginal Field Reaches First Oil 40 Years After Discovery

Perenco operated Boatou field offshore Congo Brazzaville is now in production.

The French owned, London headquartered independent hooked up four new production wells on the Boatou permit between March and May 2023, thirty-nine years after the field was discovered with Boatou-1, by Elf, one of the precursors of TOTALEnergies.

Perenco took the advantage of the field commissioning event to announce a new 20-year operating permit for Boatou.

Although the field’s start-up output of 4,500Barrels of Oil Per Day is 5% of the company’s gross output for 2022,  Perenco says it is “committed to assessing and developing” Boatou further, along  with its partners; SNPC, (Société nationale des pétroles du Congo -the National Petroleum Company of the Congo), Africa Oil and Gas Corporation (AOGC) and PetroCongo.

The Boatou field is situated 55km off the coast of Pointe-Noire in the Republic of Congo, and 7km from the neighbouring infrastructure at Likouala.

“These four wells, which were put into production forty years after discovery,” declares Stéphane Barc, General Manager, Perenco Congo, adding:  “Finding tailor-made solutions for marginal fields,delivering them quickly, efficiently, and safely, points to a very promising future in the Republic of Congo”.

Perenco operates Boatou with 75% state;  SNPC  holds 15%, AOGC 5% and PetroCongo 5%.