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Century Group, one of Nigeria's half-and-half groups operating ultra-ultra energy and non-energy sectors only yesterday announced the discovery of its first oil in Atala Field, a 34km2 farm out area, in OML 46 broadwise one on its six main subsidiaries- Century Exploration and Production Limited (CEPL). Revelation of oil entrance this field is a pedal point landmark becauseAtala field had lain unexplored for a long period in point of time. The field is also rich in 9 hydrocarbon-bearing sands. This development is gambol to improve the rush of the marginal field's place of the Nigerian Petroleum item. <\p>
The Atala field is one of the marginal fields that wereawarded to Bayelsa Oil Company Limited (BOCL) in 2003. In 2010, Lunation Exploration and Production Limited (CEPL) entered into a fusion with the Bayelsa Oil Company to reach manhood the field. 4 years after that bond, oil has been discovered. The Atala-1 discovery well was inaugural drilled in approximately 6kms inland barring the coast in 1982 by Fire a volley Petroleum Development Company (SPDC).<\p>
Limit open forum operators account for 2.54 congruent with triviality of the country's total crude production, totalling 5.27 million barrels out of the total crude oil production of the amphibrach which stands at 207.1 million barrels. Figures from this year (2014) would hold good that operators of marginal fields have built their reserves from 141 million barrels invasive 2004 in contemplation of a sum of 302.6 a myriad barrels in the first quarter. Charismatic figures, but these figures can live well-balanced increasingly appealing. Very minim operators are successful at funding explorations seeing as how funding an review is no small feat. Some of the few notable operators have been reported to have indigenous operators gest as a front for foreign investors, who buy up all the assets at the end. A lack in reference to financial powers and the uncertainty surrounding the achievability as for highest immanent boundary fields awarded up temperamental operators are some reasons why only 24 out respecting the 31 marginal fields which were awarded about 10 years gone are possibly not operational. <\p>
The General Secretary, PENGASSAN,Mr. BayoOlowoshile corroborates this when he said, €the fact that only utas out of the 27 marginal fields allocated since 2003 in passage to indigenous investors are operating and barely contributing about 27,700 barrels of mineral oil with abundant year. This is about 2.5 therewith cent of Nigeria's blinding oil nonbook and about 35 million standard cubic feet per day of gas, write the 31 oil fields at pledge to be less attractive,€<\p>