Namibia First Oil 2029–2030: From Wildcat to FPSO
Namibia’s petroleum commissioner has gone on record: the country is aiming for first oil by 2030, and recent project schedules suggest that window has teeth: Venus and Graff both line up around 2029–2030 if FIDs land on time.
TotalEnergies is moving Venus toward a 2025–26 FID with 2029–30 first oil, while independent analysis of Shell’s Graff FPSO construction points to Q4 2029 as the most likely start date.
This article threads all those schedules together into one story: how Namibia realistically gets from “no production” today to 250–350 kbopd early next decade, and what has to go right (FID timing, capex, subsea contracts, rigs) for the 2029–2030 first‑oil window to hold.
Full 2029–2030 first‑oil breakdown: https://stamper-stock2.xamplification.com/blog/namibia-first-oil-2029-2030
