{"id":45148,"date":"2026-09-10T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45148"},"modified":"2026-09-10T13:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:00:56","slug":"totalenergies-flags-new-oil-discovery","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/totalenergies-flags-new-oil-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"TotalEnergies flags new oil discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>French oil major TotalEnergies \u200con Thursday announced a new oil discovery in Angola and signed agreements to \u200bbuy a 40% operated interest \u200bin two new exploration blocks in \u2060the country.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The new Acacia-5 discovery will \u200bincrease production at the company&#8217;s Block \u200b17 by 6 000 barrels per day, TotalEnergies said in a statement. It expects the \u200bfast-track development to reach first oil \u200bwithin three months after the discovery was made \u200cin \u2060June 2026.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The company has also signed agreements with Angola&#8217;s petroleum activities regulator Ag\u00eancia Nacional de Petr\u00f3leo, G\u00e1s \u200be Biocombust\u00edveis \u200bto enter \u2060exploration Blocks 17\/25 and 32\/21 in the Lower Congo \u200bBasin with a 40% operated \u200binterest.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>TotalEnergies \u2060Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanne said on Wednesday that the company and its partners planned \u2060to \u200binvest $10 billion in \u200bAngola over the next five years.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14411,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-45148","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"French oil major TotalEnergies \u200con Thursday announced a new oil discovery","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45151,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45148\/revisions\/45151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}