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29m of net oil bearing reser- voir in Cretaceous sandstones.

No water contact was encoun- tered in a gross oil bearing interval of more than 500m.

FAN-1 was the ? rst well drilled in deep water offshore

Senegal and was the ? rst

S well drilled in the country’s offshore waters for more than

G 20 years, said Australia-based

H partner Far Ltd.

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BG ups Tanzania ? nd

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BG Group is now sitting on more than 17Tcf of gas offshore

Tanzania after its latest discov-

J I eries in the Kamba-1 well in

Block 4. The well, drilled by

R the Deepsea Metro I drillship

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O P in 1379m water, found 1.03Tcf

L K Q in the Kamba and Fulusi prospects, said partner Ophir

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Energy. The discoveries, plus

T recent volume updates on earlier discoveries in Blocks 1, 3 and 4, which BG operates with Ophir, increases Ophir’s estimate of the total mean (2C) recoverable resources on the blocks to 17.1Tcf. The

Kamba-1 discovery is BG and

K picked up new exploration and 121 has been increased Ophir’s 16th consecutive dis-

Drilling delayed licenses in Egypt’s 2013 inter- ExxonMobil CEO Rex from 537MMbbl to 2.37 billion covery well in Blocks 1, 3 and national licensing bid rounds. Tillerson said that the Ebola bbl, according to an indepen- 4, offshore Tanzania. It is also

Eni was awarded three, two virus has disrupted plans to dent assessment conducted by BG’s ? nal well in its current of which (8 and 9) are in the drill the Mesurado-1 wildcat DeGolyer and MacNaughton drilling campaign in partner- deepwater Mediterranean well, in block LB-13, offshore (D&M). P50 unrisked recover- ship with Ophir.

Sea near the Cypriot bound- Liberia, due to a lack of expa- able oil resources for the Ereng

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Mubadala spuds ary. Operatorship of Block 8 triates in the country. About prospect, the largest of the two off Thailand will be split with BP. Block 18mi off Liberia’s central four, are estimated at 1.585 bil- 9 covers 5105sq km and is coast, the block covers 2500sq lion bbl. P50 unrisked recover- Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala in 2100-2800m water depth. km area in 75-3000m water able gas resources for Ereng are Petroleum spudded two

Block 8 covers 4565sq km in depth. Seismic data identi- estimated at 2.086Tcf. CAMAC wells on the Manora ? eld 2000-2500m water depths. ? ed a deepwater Turonian to says the ? rst exploration well off Thailand. Drilled with Petroceltic’s joint ven- Lower Campanian turbidite is planned for in 1H 2015. The Atwood Oceanics’ jackup ture was awarded the North channel/fan complex in the wells will target the Miocene Atwood Orca, the MNA-

Port Fouad Block (Block 7) block with strong similarities formation, which has proven 04 and MNA-05 wells are offshore the Nile Delta to the to other turbidite sand reser- to be a proli? c oil production the fourth and ? fth wells, north of, and immediately voir oil ? elds offshore Angola, layer in deepwater Nigeria. respectively, in a planned 15 adjacent to, the North Thekah partner Canadian Overseas developmental well campaign

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Cairn strikes

Block, which was awarded Petroleum said. The company set to end 1Q 2015. Joint ven-

Senegal oil to a Petroceltic/Edison joint put p90 gross reserves at ture partner Tap Oil said that venture in 2013. approximately 1.7 billion bbl. Cairn Energy and its wells MNA-04 and MNA-05

Meanwhile, Egypt paid off Senegalese partners struck oil will be drilled to ? nal target

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Nigeria

US$1.5 billion of its debt to on the deepwater FAN-1 well, depths of 3430m and 1934m prospects increase foreign oil and gas companies, drilled using the semisub- measured depth, respectively. the country’s petroleum min- The recoverable resource esti- mersible Cajun Express to MNA-04 is the ? rst of ? ve ister announced. BG Group mate for CAMAC Energy’s four 4927m target depth in 1427m planned water injector wells. con? rmed it had been paid offshore Nigeria prospects in water depth, 100km offshore The remaining 10 wells are

US$350 million. oil mining leases (OMLs) 120 Senegal. The well discovered planned to be producers. As oedigital.com November 2014 | OE 21 020_OE1114_Global Br.indd 21 10/20/14 9:54 PM