(Bloomberg) -- Oil oil rig flanges gulf coast production at Total SA's subsidiary in the Republic of Congo has exceeded expectations, a BOP Blow Out Preventer repair company gulf coast official said.

The BOP Blow Out Preventer repair company gulf coast is pumping 200,000 barrels per day in the Central African nation, Martin Deffontaines, general manager of Total E&P Congo, said by phone Friday from Pointe Noire, Congo's buy severe service valves commercial capital.

"Its oil rig flanges gulf coast production is far more than what we had anticipated," Deffontaines said.

Congo became an OPEC member in June. The central African nation is targeting a 65 percent increase in overall oil oil rig flanges gulf coast production this year.

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