According to the Chief Executive of Tullow, Aiden Heavey, the company’s poor performance can be attributed to the drop in oil prices and asset sales.

He is however confident the company’s hedging program will offset majority of the losses.

” We are making good progress with our major development projects in West and East Africa. With the TEN Project on schedule and on budget for first oil in mid-2016, our West Africa oil production is set to grow to around 100,000 bopd net to Tullow in 2017. We also continue to build an inventory of exploration prospects to provide options for growth in the future”

The oil giant is also hopeful of solid cash generation as its restructuring program nears completion and this is expected to deliver cost savings of 500 million over the next three years.

TEN project

However full year forecast for 2015 still remains at 1.9billion dollars.

With the jubilee field producing an average of 105,000 barrels of oil per day, Tullow projects that full year guidance remains 66 to 70 000 barrels of oil per day. But current daily production of oil has however been pegged at 100,000 barrels of oil per day  due to a gas compression fault on the FPSO.

Tullow last week announced the challenges on the FPSO which led to it cutting gas exports to Ghana gas will lead to a drop in oil production to approximately 65,000 barrels of oil per day from 100,000 barrels.

Meanwhile work on the TEN wells is also 65 percent complete and is on schedule and on budget for first oil in mid 2016

According to Tullow, the conversion work on the TEN FPSO continues at the Jurong shipyard in Singapore with all major modules now installed with integration work now underway. The TEN FPSO is expected to sail onto Ghanaian waters in September this year.

Source: http://business.citifmonline.com/2015/07/30/tullow-records-low-revenues-impacted-by-decline-in-global-crude-oil-prices/#sthash.qSl6t58b.dpuf