seetao.com learned from China Petroleum Engineering that on March 15, 2021, the company issued an announcement that CNPC West Africa Corporation will form a consortium with Dagang Oil Construction Company of the Pipeline Bureau and signed the Niger Agadem with China Petroleum International (Niger) Upstream Project Company. PCC contract for the second phase of the oilfield surface engineering construction project.

The contracted project is located in the Termit Basin in the southeast of Niger. It is divided into two PC bid sections, Koulele&Dibeilla oil field group and FGD oil field group, with a contract value of approximately US$705 million. The project has the characteristics of six tops, five tops, and three tops. The total amount of work is large and the construction is difficult. It is a key overseas investment project of the group company during the 14th five-year plan.

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Wu Jun, deputy general manager of CNPC International West Africa Company and general manager of Niger Upstream Project Company, said that CPECC will concentrate its superior strengths, promote the implementation of the project with a high starting point, high quality and high standards, and make every effort to promote the second venture of the Niger Oilfield project and expand the West African region. It will be built into a key overseas cooperation zone for conventional oil and gas that is profitable, in-depth and influential for the group company to ensure the high-quality implementation of the group company's strategy to strengthen Africa.

In the next step, CNPC West Africa Company will carefully organize project planning and implementation in accordance with the overall deployment of the project owner and the company’s overall arrangements, and actively promote the orderly development of the project’s work, so as to deepen the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative and build a China-Africa community with a shared future. Construction injects new impetus. Editor/Tian Zengpeng