{"content":[{"text":"West Africa offshore activity continues to grow \n Nigeria to add 0.5 MMb/d by 1Q/2006","bbox":{"left":0.243725,"top":0.093758,"width":0.512095,"height":0.038561000000000026}},{"text":"Offshore Magazine, Nov. 1, 2005","bbox":{"left":0.355882,"top":0.152121,"width":0.288471,"height":0.015151999999999999}},{"text":"West Africa is poised for more growth offshore, and Nigeria is leading the way.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.187121,"width":0.683098,"height":0.015151999999999999}},{"text":"Forecasting growth in oil production from 2.5 to 4.0 MMbbl/d by 2010, Nigeria is looking \n to a string of deepwater developments. Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Edmund \n Daukoru, speaking at the World Petroleum Congress in Johannesburg last month, said, \n “Nigeria is going to put 0.5 million barrels more per day on the market by the end of the first \n quarter next year, from Bonga, from Erha and from two other smaller sources.”","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.22197,"width":0.7648429999999999,"height":0.08484900000000001}},{"text":"Royal Dutch Shell says that the Bonga field, the country’s first large-scale deepwater \n project, will start production in late October, quickly achieving 100,000 b/d. Shell Nigeria \n Exploration and Production Co., a wholly owned unit of Shell, is the operator and 55% \n shareholder of Bonga. The remaining equity is held by Total, ExxonMobil, and Eni.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.326515,"width":0.764745,"height":0.06742500000000001}},{"text":"Shell, which produces nearly half of Nigeria’s oil, plans to invest $10 billion there in the next \n four to five years to develop another deep offshore hub and other prospects including \n natural gas","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.413636,"width":0.76498,"height":0.05000100000000002}},{"text":"Offshore West Africa oil production is expected to more than double to 351.5 metric","bbox":{"left":0.151765,"top":0.483333,"width":0.7305689999999999,"height":0.015151999999999999}},{"text":"tons in 2009, which implies an increase of 188.4 metric tons, equivalent to just under 4.0 \n MMb/d. This accounts for 28.5% of the total forecast increase in world offshore oil \n production. The forecast increase in gas production is related to the development of \n commercial/export markets associated with the growth in the number of LNG plants and \n production. Offshore West Africa's gas previously flared is now increasingly being \n converted into LNG. Growth will be more modest than for oil production, but the region is","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.79697,"width":0.7648429999999999,"height":0.10227300000000006}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.117549,"top":0.507803,"width":0.764902,"height":0.273636}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.117549,"top":0.507803,"width":0.764902,"height":0.273636}]}