Angola is close to increasing its crude oil output by as much as 175,000Barrels of Oil Per Day.
The floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) Agogo arrived the country’s waters on May 16, 2025.
It is expected to take at most six months to hook up the reservoirs to the production facility, so this FPSO arrival supposes that the actual field production could start from as early as November 2025.
The statement from the National Agency of Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels(ANPG), Angola’s upstream petroleum regulator, was not specific about the date of first oil: “The Agogo Integrated West Pole project is expected to start production in the second half of 2025 with a maximum production of 175,000 barrels per day(BPD) at peak production”, it simply disclosed.
As of February 2025, Azule Energy, the bp/ENI integrated JV which is operator of Block 15/06 in which the Agogo and Ndungu fields are hosted, had declared that first oil from the project had been fast forwarded “from mid-2026 to the end of 2025”.
Now, barring any significant decline in the country’s current output (Mach 2025 average: 1.038MillionBOPD), this means that Africa’s third largest crude oil producer may be producing in excess of 1.2MMBOPD by February 2026.
“The FPSO Agogo is a fundamental part of the Agogo Integrated West Pole Project, which aims to develop the two most significant discoveries in Agogo and Ndungu”, declares Paulino Jerônimo, the Angolan geologist who is Chairman of the Board of Directors of ANPG.
“This development is set to substantially increase production from the aforementioned block. “The arrival of the FPSO Agogo in Angola is of significant value, as it represents the completion of the project whose first modules were installed last year. There were several challenging stages throughout the project, but also a demonstration of the right partnerships and the determination of our human capital. In terms of local content, part of the structure was manufactured at construction sites in our country,” the ANPG statement notes.
“The vessel is operated by Yinson Production and it is equipped with carbon reduction technologies, including the first pilot post-combustion carbon capture system on an FPSO”, Azule Energy discloses.
“The FPSO began its voyage from the Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry shipyard in China at the end of February 2025 and recently made a brief stop in Namibia as part of the planned logistics to replenish supplies and facilitate the crew change”.
