Having cut production last week to 30,000 barrels of oil per day because of gas compression problems, ExxonMobil last evening said that it has begun ramping up output and that a solution is at least three months away during which controversial flaring will occur.
Since January this year, ExxonMobil has experienced major problems with the gas compression equipment on its Liza Destiny Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) platform in the Atlantic and this has led to environmentally damaging gas flaring which is now set to continue.
On April 13th, ExxonMobil announced that its third phase of testing of repaired gas compression equipment on the Liza Destiny had failed and that this had resulted in production being slashed to 30,000 barrels.
