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Friday, July 26, 2013
Drilling operations have begun on Kenya’s Block 13T according to Africa Oil Corp. In a release the company said that the Ekales Prospect on the block was spud on July 22. The well has a planned total depth of 2,500 meters and is expected to take an estimated two months to drill.
The primary objectives are the Auwerwer and Lower Lokhone sandstones already established to be highly productive reservoirs at the nearby Ngamia and Twiga discoveries. The prospect is a three-way fault closure against the main basin bounding fault and is located directly between, and about 15 km northwest of the Ngamia discovery and 7 km south of the Twiga discovery along the ‘string of pearls’ trend.
The well is being drilled by the Weatherford #804 rig.
Africa Oil holds a 50% working interest in this prospect along with operator Tullow Oil.
Africa Oil CEO Keith Hill commented, “The Ekales Prospect is probably one of the lowest risk prospects in our inventory. The proximity and similarity to the existing Ngamia and Twiga discoveries give us a high degree of confidence that we will find oil and continue to build the discovered resources necessary for commercial volume threshold. Our pace of exploration and appraisal continues to accelerate with the anticipated arrival of three additional rigs in Kenya and Ethiopia in the next 60 days for a total of six rigs, four of which will be operated by Tullow Oil. The recently announced Etuko discovery, on the flank of the Lokichar basis has opened a new play fairway and provided further confirmation of the world class potential of the Lokichar Basin.”
In Ethiopia Africa Oil said that the OGEC 75 rig is being mobilized to the Tultule location. This prospect is located 4 km from the Sabisa-1 well which was recently abandoned after proving the existence of the essential hydrocarbon elements of source, seal, and reservoir in this frontier basin. It is being drilled on a well-defined horst block feature which should provide good trapping characteristics. The vompany holds a 30% working interest in this prospect along with operator Tullow Oil (50%) and Marathon Oil (30%).
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