Exploration and Production
Chevron has a 25 percent interest in an international consortium, which has been developing the Doba oil fields in southern Chad.
In 2008, total average daily production in the Doba complex was 127,000 barrels (28,000 net) of crude oil.
The complex includes the Bolobo, Miandoum and Kome fields, which began production in 2003; the Nya Field, which achieved first oil in 2005; and the Moundouli Field, which began production in 2006. Following a satellite field development project, the Maikeri Field began production in 2007.
In late 2008, the development application for the Timbre Field in the Doba Basin area was approved.
Pipelines
In 2003, Chevron and its partners inaugurated the Chad-Cameroon Oil Development and Pipeline project. Chevron has about a 21 percent interest in the two Cameroon affiliates that own the underground pipeline, which was completed one year ahead of schedule.
The pipeline transports previously landlocked oil some 665 miles (1,070 km), from the Doba oil fields in southern Chad to a floating export facility at Kribi, Cameroon, in the Gulf of Guinea.
There, the oil is shipped from a floating storage and offloading vessel, located 7 miles (11.3 km) offshore, for export to world markets. The pipeline has a capacity of about 225,000 barrels per day.
Updated: March 2009