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Thursday, July 4, 2013
During Q2 Tullow Oil Corp. continued its success in Kenya. Its exploration and appraisal activity across its operated acreage in the East African country continues to pay off with discoveries for Tullow and its partners.
Flow testing at Ngamia-1 in the LokicharBasin was successfully completed with a cumulative constrained flow rate totaling 3,200 bpd. Analysis of this test data from both the Ngamia-1 and Twiga South-1 wells has resulted in the doubling of the company’s previous estimates of net oil pay to 200 meters and 75 meters respectively, an optimized flow rate potential of around 5,000 bpd per well, and significantly increased discovered volumes. The combined mean associated resources for the two discoveries are currently estimated to be over 250 million barrels of oil with the potential to increase further following appraisal.
The company saw the drilling of the Etuko prospect spud in May. This well was the first test of the Basin Flank Play in the South Lokichar Basin and results of drilling, wireline logs, and samples of reservoir fluid confirm a new oil discovery with net pay of over 40 meters in the Auwerwer and Upper Lokhone targets. The well has the potential for discovering even more oil as Tullow drills deeper into the Lower Lokhone sands. The results from this lower section are expected by the end of July. The next well in the Kenyan line-up is the Ekales-1 well in the Basin Bounding Fault Play on trend with Ngamia and Twiga-South. This well will commence drilling in late-July.
A 550 sq km 3D seismic survey over the area, which will support Tullow’s appraisal program, will commence in Q3.
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