Amid one of the deepest oil price crashes in history, Britain’s Tullow Oil is sending one of the world’s biggest floating deep-water oil production platforms to West Africa to pump crude for at least 20 years. The 340-metre long production vessel, named after late Ghanaian president Prof John Evans Atta Mills, was converted in Singapore from a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) super-tanker, and is expected to set sail this weekend to Ghana, where it is scheduled to gradually ramp up production from the TEN deepwater oilfield from July/August this year, the company’s chief operating officer Paul McDade said on Thursday. With costs (operating plus capital expenditure) of around $20 per barrel and an expected production life of […]