The US oil company expects to commence seismic operations in July.
Chevron has also pushed back the expansion of a natural gas processing plant in Nigeria, originally slated for this year, to 2016.
Phase 3B of Nigeria’s Escravos gas plant, designed to process 120 million cubic feet of gas a day from eight offshore fields, will begin next year.
The Phase 3A will feed an $8.4bn gas-to-liquids plant nearby when that starts up next year, reported Reuters.
The first phase of its plant in southwestern Sichuan province will begin next year, while the second phase at Chuandongbei field in China will commence this year.
Chevron expects to drill two exploratory wells this year in Vaca Muerta in Argentina for shale gas and tight-oil deposits, where work is already underway.
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