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Total Gets Extension in DRC

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Total was granted a one-year extension to its oil exploration license for Block III onshore the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The new license is valid until January 26, 2019 according to a Bloomberg report.

According to Aimé Ngoy Mukena, the Congolese Minister of Petroleum, this new license extension forTotal will lead to the development of a drilling program to be submitted to Kinshasa before its completion and the creation of an export plan for oil production via an oil pipeline linking the Congolese permits and the oil fields of western Uganda to the Tanzanian port of Tanga.


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