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Sunday, April 29, 2018
The first well by Zarara Oil & Gas Ltd., a subsidiary of Midway Resources International, has spud in Kenya. The company spud the Pate-2 natural gas well on its PSCs on Blocks L4 and L13 near Port Lamu in Kenya.
The company contracted two rigs, the first to drill and run 20-in. casing for Pate-2 and Pate-3 wells to 300 meters. The second rig will drill each well to a targeted depth of 4,500 meters.
Zarara’s drilling campaign follows a four-year evaluation program using 2D seismic over the original Pate-1 discovery area drilled by Shell and BP in 1970.
Pate-2 was stepped out 300 meters from the Pate-1 well. Targets are the basal Kipini sandstones that flowed gas in Pate-1 as well as Paleocene-Cretaceous sands.
Midway Resources is a private company with oil and gas interests in Kenya and Nigeria.
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