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Tullow Oil Announces Fresh Oil Strike In Northern Kenya

  • SOURCE: | qwesa2big
  • fpsoIndependent oil and gas multinational Tullow Oil plc says its onshore Agete-1 exploration well in Block 13T in northern Kenya has discovered and sampled moveable oil with an estimated 100 metres of net oil pay in good quality sandstone reservoirs.

    The Agete-1 wildcat well is part of a major exploration campaign and is the fifth consecutive oil discovery in the first of a chain of multiple rift basins across Tullow’s acreage in the region, the London-headquartered company said over the weekend.

    It said this discovery de-risks several follow-on prospects located to the north and is on trend with the Twiga South, Ekales, and Ngamia oil discoveries and adds to the significant resource base already discovered.

    The company added that the Sakson PR5 rig drilled Agete-1 to a total depth of 1,930 metres. Following completion of logging operations the well will be suspended for future flow testing which will confirm the net pay count.

    The rig will then move to drill the Ewoi-1 wildcat in the east of this basin, targeting a rift flank prospect similar to the recent Etuko oil discovery.

    Tullow operates the Agete-1 well with a 50 per cent interest and Africa Oil has a 50 per cent non-operated interest.

    It added that elsewhere in Kenya, exploration and appraisal activities continue to accelerate with the Amosing-1 well, in Block 10BB, expected to commence drilling before the end of November with the Weatherford 804 rig.

    The Etuko-1 well test in Block 10BB is also scheduled to commence this month with the PR Marriott 46 rig which recently arrived in country and the Ekales-1 well test is scheduled to commence with the new SMP-5 workover unit in early December.

    Source: www.bernama.com

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