by Jim Wisner
Our industry is more intent than ever on looking for every opportunity to extract oil and gas more efficiently, in more remote and difficult locations, and with more awareness of our increasing social responsibilities.
You can see evidence of it by the large attendance at the World Petroleum Congress, the new technologies on display here and the discussions about sustainable development.
That's certainly true in Angola.
In 2007, Chevron produced an average of 594,000 barrels of oil per day from Angolan wells. And we continue our very aggressive exploration and major development programs to increase and maintain production.
Together with Sonangol (the Angolan national oil company), Chevron and our partners are developing the deepwater Tombua-Landana project in Block 14 and the Angola Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project near the town of Soyo in northern Angola.
A significant technical challenge ahead is the drilling of the gas pipeline from Block 0 crossing the Congo River to the Angola LNG plant. Crossing the vast river will be a significant technological accomplishment.
As well as making these major investments in Angola, we also are proud of our contributions to the development of our Angolan work force and the work we are doing to improve the communities where we work. Like the technical hurdles we face in many of our projects, if we keep our Chevron Way principles in mind, we will meet the challenge.
Posted July 03, 2008 23:55 | Back to Blog