West African capacity is to surge by 800,000 b/d to 6.3mn b/d by the end of this year.The bulk of incremental capacity in 2007 will come from new Opec member Angola,which produces mostly heavy sweet crude and is targeting production of 2mn b/d by 2008,compared with 1.4mn b/d in 2006.Nigerian output is lighter than Angola's,so the focus on new streams from the latter will make west African supply heavier this year.Angola's Total-operated acidic heavy sweet Dalia field in block 17 started up in mid-December and should hit full production of 225,000 b/d before the end of this year.The March loading programme implies output of 184,000 b/d of 23 deg API,0.49pc sulphur Dalia.
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