The Nigerian independent, Petralon Energy, has announced the commencement of production on its second consecutive well, DI-3 on the Dawes Island field onshore eastern Niger Delta basin.
Production on the well commenced on March 14, 2026 “and has since delivered average additional daily production of approximately 2,800 barrels of oil per day (BOPD), bringing the field’s combined production capacity to approximately 4,800BOPD”, the company says in a release.
DI-3 builds directly on the performance of DI-2, which came onstream on October 18 2025. Together, the two wells represent a sustained, back-to-back drilling programme on a field that was non-producing at the time of Petralon’s acquisition in 2021.
“The company has to date exported over 350,000 barrels of oil from the field via the Bonny Oil and Gas Terminal, which lies about 30kilometres from the field. The DI-3 well was delivered with zero lost-time incidents, consistent with the company’s commitment to world-class health, safety and environmental standards across its operations”, Petralon gushes in the widely circulated release.
The Dawes Island field occupies roughly 46 square kilometres in a location sited approximately 15kilometres from Port Harcourt, he commercial heartland of Eastern Nigeria. The field “holds an estimated 17.6Million barrels of recoverable oil”, the company says. Petralon 54, the subsidiary of Petralon Energy which is working the asset, “holds a 100% working interest in the field, acquired in 2021”.
Ahonsi Unuigbe, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Petralon Energy, explains that the “success at Dawes Island was built on the conviction that Nigerians could acquire, develop, and operate world-class energy assets.
“That conviction once required courage; today, it stands on proof. The easy thing after DI-2 would have been to pause, but the determination and resilience of every single member of the Petralon team drove us forward, and DI-3 is the result of that effort. Progress like this is only possible through the strong collaboration we have built with our host communities, our regulator, and our partners. This is only the beginning of what Dawes Island can deliver.”
