Glencore / Petrochad Mangara

Project: P-3048 Level Instruments
Location: Chad, North Central Africa
Products: Aurora GWR / Magnetic Level Gauge Combined

The mining and trading giant Glencore acquired oil reserves in Chad in July 2014. In 2018, Glencore’s net production from the West African Country, including the Mangara and Badila oilfields, was approximately 2.8 million barrels of oil. By comparison, oil major BP produces close to 4 million barrels of oil equivalent per day.

The DOB block (Mangara) is 1,320 km2 and the Mangara field, the only area drilled by previous operators in the block, is located 107km from the Export Pipeline. All three wells drilled on the Mangara field by previous operators encountered oil with test rates ranging from 300 bbls/d to 1,600 bbls/d of light sweet crude oil.

As part of the level measurement upgrades on the Mangara Central Production Facility, Glencore contracted ABLE to recommend and supply the appropriate instrumentation to achieve greater accuracy on the Degassers and Recovered Oil Tanks. ABLE provided several Guided Wave Radar (GWR) Transmitters in chambers and, for those duties that required both a discreet visual indication and an analogue (4-20mA) output, ABLE specified Magnetrol Aurora GWR/Magnetic Level Gauge combinations.