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Tuesday, December 16, 2014
ENI successfully completed the production test on the Minsala Marine 1 NFW, located in the Marine XII Block offshore the Republic of Congo (ROC). During the production test the well delivered on natural flow in excess of 5,000 bpd of oil and 14 Mmcf/d of natural gas from an opened section of 37 meters out of the 420-meter oil column identified in the discovery. The oil quality is 41˚ API.
The company pegged the preliminarily estimates of the potential of Minsala Marine discovery at about 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent in place, of which 80% is oil. ENI has scheduled an appraisal plan for the discovery and has begun studying the commercial development of its significant hydrocarbons reserves.
“The production test results has exceeded expectations and enables us to plan a fast commercial development of the important Minsala Marine find, similarly to what had been done at Nene’ Marine” said Claudio Descalzi, CEO of the company.
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