
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Drilling on the Tilapia PSC offshore Cameroon is estimated to begin in Q3, according to Noble Energy, the operator of the Tilapia PSC. Noble, in its Q1 results, said that the Cheetah Prospect was first on tap and it had executed a contract for a rig to drill the exploration well.
The Cheetah, with unrisked gross mean resources of more than 100 million barrels of oil equivalent gross, is a four-way structure and represents the company’s first Cretaceous oil prospect in Cameroon. Planned total depth of the well is 13,100 ft. The prospect comprises multiple Upper Cretaceous targets.