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Thursday, March 12, 2015
Tullow Oil’s Engomo-1 exploration well in Block 10BA in Kenya encountered no significant oil or gas shows while drilling. The well was drilled to a total depth of 2,353 meters utilizing the SMP-106 rig and encountered interbedded sandstones, siltstones, and claystones; it was subsequently plugged and abandoned. Engomo-1 was the first well drilled in the large North Turkana Basin and is located west of Lake Turkana where numerous naturally occurring oil slicks and seeps have been observed. Analysis is being focused on high-grading the remaining prospectivity in the basin. The SMP-106 rig will now be demobilized.
In the South Lokichar Basin the company is continuing its extensive exploration and appraisal program in Blocks 10BB and 13T, which has the joint objectives of proving reservoir quality and defining the resource estimates to ultimately progress the development of the discovered resources.
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