Sasol Plans Mozambican Spud

Sasol plans to spud a new well in Mozambique within the next month or two according to the company’s director of exploration Peter Dekker. The well will be drilled on the Sofala Block.  

Dekker, cited by Mozambican newspaper Noticias, said that drilling for the next well would be carried out between July 15 and August 15, and that the probability of finding natural gas was estimated at 25%.

In the Noticias article Dekker said that work on the first well, which is expected to be drilled to 4,000 meters, would take 45 days and, if the result is positive, the potential of the reserve would be assessed in order to drill, over six months, another well for commercial exploration.

In November 2011 Ebbie Haan, MDof Sasol Petroleum International, told attendees at the Africa Upstream conferencethat the company said that it was looking for a partner for the Sofala Block. Sasol was said to be looking to sell off a 25% stake in the block.

It was also revealed that Sasol plans to drill a second test well on the M-10 offshore concession.