A decisive year for Oliver Quinn at Ophir

摘要

After he won rather favourable fiscal termsrnwhen signing a production sharing contractrnfor the CI-513 block in Ivory Coast’s deeprnoffshore alongside African Petroleum ( AEIrn760), Ophir Energy’s Africa director, OliverrnQuinn, will now have to decide whether thernfirm will drill in 2017 or relinquish the licensernin March, 2018. The same situation appliesrnto the western part of his block R where Ophirrnhas got to decide next year on whether torndrill or hand back the license in an area calledrnAMI (for Area of Mutual Interest). Block Rrnhouses the Fortuna gas discovery that Ophirrnis due to develop in conjunction with OneLNG,rna joint venture between Schlumberger andrnGolar ( AEI 781).