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Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Anglo African Oil & Gas’ subsidiary, PetroKouilou, finalized a contract with Schlumberger Ltd. to supply support services for the drilling of the new TLP-103 well on its 56% owned Tilapia oil field (Tilapia). The Tilapia is located in the Republic of Congo’s prolific Lower Congo Basin. Drilling operations at TLP-103 are planned to commence in June 2018.
The services covered by this agreement include mud logging services, wire line services, drilling & completion fluids & WBCO and casing accessories. Schlumberger will also include cementing services, drilling bits, and DST operations among other things.
The comprehensive agreement ensures that Anglo African has now secured all the auxiliary personnel and services necessary to complete the drilling of TLP-103, a new multi-horizon well which, in addition to targeting producing reservoirs and an 8.1-million barrel gross contingent resource discovery, will test a deeper prospect which has been assigned 58.4 million barrels of gross prospective resources.
The company also confirmed that the workover of TLP-101 was completed. A very large build-up of wax in the flow lines has been removed. The build-up of wax had accumulated over a long period of time as no work had been carried out on the flow lines since TLP-101 was brought into production over 10 years ago. It has now begun a test program under which the flow rate and pressure are tested at different chokes; this is designed to determine the optimum flow rate for the well.
Finally, the workover of TLP-102 by Schlumberger will take place earlier than previously announced and the company now expects this action to be completed by early April 2018. The company will announce the results of this workover once complete.
David Sefton, Executive Chairman, commented, “I am very pleased that the team both in the Congo and London continues to make excellent progress in executing on the development of the asset. In particular, we now have certainty on all material contractors for drilling TLP-103 and so can move with confidence into the final stages of planning for this key new well.
“James Berwick and I want to express our thanks in particular to Gerard Bourgoin, the Directeur-General of PetroKouilou, and the drilling manager, Alain Guiraud, for their extraordinary efforts over recent weeks.”
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