RE: RE: RE: AOI drilling...... Now Ngamia has been labeled a discovery, oil has been brought to the surface. Neither of these applied to Shabeel-1.
The Ngamia-1 exploration well in Kenya has now been deepened to a total depth of 1515 meters and has encountered in excess of 100 meters of net oil pay in multiple reservoir zones over a gross interval of 650 meters. Following the initial announcement on the 26th March 2012 that Ngamia-1 had encountered in excess of 20 meters of net oil pay, the well has now been deepened from 1041 meters to 1515 meters. A further four good quality, oil-bearing reservoir zones have been encountered. Due to deteriorating hole conditions, a sidetrack of the well was required to deepen the well. Moveable oil with an API greater than 30 degrees has been recovered to surface from six of these intervals. This oil has similar properties to the light waxy crude encountered in the upper reservoir zone.
https://www.thepressreleasewire.com/client/africa_oil/release.jsp?actionFor=1609019&releaseSeq=13&year=2012
Also, Tullow has stated that the geology here is similar to Uganda and that Ngamia is the best African well they have drilled.
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