PARIS, FRANCE: Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies received His Excellency Walid Fayad, Minister of Energy and Water of Lebanon, on the Company’s headquarters. During the meeting, Patrick Pouyanné and Walid Fayad mentioned the event of TotalEnergies’ actions in Lebanon, and Patrick Pouyanné confirmed that the groups in cost of drilling operations on Block 9 were now mobilized.
To date, along with the Operations Manager, greater than 10 people are concerned within the preparation of the well. By the finish of March, the team mobilized in Beirut will attain greater than 20 employees. The name for tenders to safe the drilling rig has been launched and ought to result in a choice of the rig within the primary quarter of 2023. Pre-orders have additionally been positioned with suppliers for equipment required for the well. In parallel, offshore resources are being mobilized to contribute to the environmental research which will be finalized by the finish of June 2023.
All these TotalEnergies groups are working in collaboration with LPA to put together the well so as to obtain the target of TotalEnergies and its partner ENI to full the drilling as quickly as possible in 2023.
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