By Razak Musah Baba
LONDON--Oil and gas company Tullow Oil PLC (TLW.LN) said Tuesday
that Africa Oil Corp. (AOI.T), its partner in Blocks 10BB and 13T
in northern Kenya, has found high-quality oil reservoirs at the
Ngamia-2 exploratory appraisal well, adding that it will be
suspended for testing.
Tullow said "the well encountered up to 39 meters of net oil pay
and 11 meters of net gas pay and appears to have identified a new
fault block trap north of the main Ngamia accumulation. The
reservoirs were of high quality with more than 200 meters of net
reservoir sands."
Work on the well has been suspended for testing and up to four
additional appraisal wells will be drilled in the Ngamia area for
an extended testing program, the company added.
Angus McCoss, exploration director at Tullow Oil, said: "The
success of the Ngamia-2 exploratory appraisal well builds on our
major basin opening discovery well, Ngamia-1. With five rigs
drilling in Kenya and Ethiopia, there is much to look forward to in
the second half of the year."
Tullow holds a 50% operated interest in the blocks.
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