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Friday, September 19, 2014
Angola’s Block 15/06 saw a new discovery with the drilling of the Ochigufu 1 NFW. The well, operated by ENI, is expected to be brought onstream in record time. Oghigufu is the tenth commercial oil discovery made in Block 15/06. The new discovery is estimated to contain 300 million barrels of oil in place.
The well is located approximately 150 km off the coast and 9.8 km from the Ngoma FPSO (West Hub) and the closeness to the FPSO allows the increase of the resource base of the West Hub project, currently underway. The well was drilled by the Ocean Rig Poseidon in a water depth of 1,337 meters and reached a total depth of 4,470 meters.
Ochigufu 1 NFW was directionally drilled in order to reach the targets in optimal position and proved a net oil pay of 47 meters, (34° API) contained in the Lower Miocene and Oligocene sandstones with very good petrophysical properties. The data acquired in Ochigufu 1 well indicate a production capacity equal to more than 5,000 bopd.
Claudio Descalzi, ENI’s CEO said: “This important discovery, which will be brought into production in record time, adds even more value to Block 15/06. Like the recent discoveries in Congo and Gabon, this new find exemplifies the results we can achieve by applying leading edge technologies to exploration, and substantiates the decision to refocus ENI on key oil and gas competences.”
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