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Sunday, November 1, 2015
Drilling on Gabon’s BCD-10 license resulted in a discovery for Shell. The company made a ‘frontier exploration’ discovery with the drilling of the Leopard-1 well.
According to Shell the Leopard-1 encountered a substantial gas column with around 200 meters net gas pay in a pre-salt reservoir.
The well was drilled in water 2,110 meters deep to a total vertical depth of 5,063 meters. Shell and its partner CNOOC plan to undertake an appraisal program to further determine the resource volumes.
Alastair Milne, Shell’s VP exploration for sub-Saharan Africa told attendees at Global Pacific and Partners’ Africa Oil Week taking place in Cape Town that the discovery may be a new commercial gas field. “Leopard is the first potentially commercial multi-Tcf find in a new gas play and I think that is very exciting for us and for the government of Gabon,” Milne said.
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