Total Energies is racing against time to deliver first oil in 2025, and is expected to begin oil drilling operations next month after confirming that two of the oil rigs are ready on site.

The French oil company will follow in the footsteps of China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) that set the pace in oil drilling of 31 oil wells in KingFisher Area in Kikuube District.

Mr Innocent Osuna, the Total Well Pads superintendent, revealed these details during a guided tour by Ministry of Energy and local government officials of Tilenga Industrial Area and the ZPEB- 2 oil rig nearing full installation in Kasenyi Village, Buliisa District.

He said the company will install three oil rigs automated to move to different well pads to drill more than 426 oil wells in Buliisa, Nwoya and parts of Murchison Falls National Park.

A well pad is a graded area for an oil drilling site where drilling rigs and pumps are planted before the actual drilling starts for an oil well or several oil wells within the same site.

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