Tullow Ghana has confirmed that FPSO John Evans Attah Mills will begin oil production in the first of August this year.

Managing Director of Tullow Ghana, Charles Darku, told journalists engineers have completed relevant works on the vessel to enable production in four weeks.

“As the managers have told you we are currently on track for first oil within the first week of August there about which is barely four weeks away,” Mr Darku stated.

He, however, adds that although engineers have assessed the vessel and are confident of the start of oil production by the country’s second FPSO, things could change.

The integrated facilities of the vessel are currently undergoing final commissioning and testing ahead of the first oil  production.

The FPSO John Evans Atta Mills is 350 meters long vessel that can produce 80,000 barrels of oil a day and store up to 1.7 million barrels oil from the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) offshore oil fields.

The vessel will be attached to nine anchor piles which will maintain her position above the TEN fields, around 60 kilometers from the coast of Ghana’s Western Region.

The FPSO began its voyage from Singapore to Ghana on January 23, after it was christened by the First Lady, Lordina Mahama, in September 2015.

The development of the TEN fields is being led by Tullow Oil, its partners are the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Kosmos Energy, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and PetroSA.