The Bonga Field is an oilfield in Nigeria. It was located in License block OPL 212 off the Nigerian Coast, which has now been renamed as OML 118 in February 2000. The field covers approximately 60 square Km in an average water depth of 1000m. The field was discovered in 1996, with Government approval occurring in 2002. The field began first production in November 2005. The field is produced via a FSPO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading) Vessel. The field produces both Oil and Natural Gas, the oil is offloaded to tankers while the gas is piped back to Nigeria where it is exported via a LNG Plant. The field contains approximately 6,000 mmBoe. Drilling rig in a small oil field Near Sarnia, Ontario, 2001 An oil field is an area with an abundance of oil wells extracting petroleum (oil) from below ground. ...

The field is operated by Shell Nigeria who own 55% of the license. The other partners in the field development are Exxon (20%), Nigerian AGIP (12.5%) and Elf Petroleum (12.5%) Look up shell in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Exxon Mobil Corporation or ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), headquartered in Irving, Texas, is an oil producer and distributor formed on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil. ...

See also

• Nigeria
• Natural gas
• Oilfield

Natural gas is gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane but including significant quantities of ethane, butane, propane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium and hydrogen sulfide. ... Drilling rig in a small oil field Near Sarnia, Ontario, 2001 An oil field is an area with an abundance of oil wells extracting petroleum (oil) from below ground. ...

References

• The Bonga Field. Rigzone. Retrieved on September 23, 2006.

September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

External links

• Rigzone