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Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Block 15/06 offshore Angola and operated by ENI has produced another discovery. ENI hit light oil while drilling the Kalimba-1 NFW well on the Kalimba exploration prospect.
The well was drilled by the West Gemini drillship in a water depth of 458 meters and reached a total depth of 1,901 meters. The new discovery is estimated to contain between 230 and 300 million barrels of light oil in place.
Kalimba-1 NFW encountered 23 meters of net oil pay of high quality oil in the Upper Miocene sandstones. The data acquired in Kalimba-1 NFW indicate a production capacity in excess of 5,000 bpd of oil.
The discovery opens new opportunities for oil exploration in the Southern part of Block 15/06, so far considered mainly gas prone, thus creating new chances for additional potential value in the block.
ENI and its JV partners, Sonangol P&P and SSI Fifteen Ltd. will work to appraise the updip of the discovery and will start the studies to fast track its development.
In Block 15/06 the two oil development projects, West hub and East Hub, are currently producing about 150,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd).
The next start-ups in block 15/06 this year will be the Upper Miocene, in the East Hub, and the Subsea Boosting System for the Mpungi field, while the Vandumbu field, that will be connected to the West Hub, will start production at the end of 2018, ahead of plan. These start-ups will add a further 30,000 bpd of oil to the overall production from Block 15/06, which in 2019 will exceed 170,000 bpd gross.
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