Kudu gas field

The Kudugasfeld is a 1974 Chevorn discovered gas field about 170 kilometers west of Oranjemund off the coast of Namibia in the South. It is about 1.3 TCF = 1.3 trillion (10 ¹ ²) cubic feet ( 36.8 billion cubic meters) of natural gas have.

Field

The natural gas field was discovered in 1974 and explored. For this purpose, held numerous companies, including Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron Texaco and Energy Africa, the license. In 2004, Tullow Oil " Energy Africa" ​​and thus acquired the license for the Kudugasfeld. 2009, the mining and use of license to a consortium of the Namibian Petroleum Company Namcor and Gazprom ( 54%), the Japanese group Itochu has been allocated ( 15%) and Tullow Oil ( 31%). Gazprom has early June 2011, sold his shares to the Russian company also GPB Neftegaz Services.

Power station

The construction of up to 170 kilometer pipeline ( upstream) was announced on 2 April 2013 Nampower. It should also be completed by the end of 2013, the award of the construction of a 800 MW power plant 25 km north of Oranjemund. Construction is expected to 2017/2018Vorlage: are future / completed in 3 years.