Last Updated 14 years ago by Kenya Engineer
Oil explorers in the country have a reason to worry after explorer’s non-commercial oil discovery in one of the listed offshore blocks. Anadarko, an American oil and gas exploration company announced that the Kubwa well on the L-07 block offshore Kenya had encountered noncommercial oil shows in reservoir-quality sands but remained optimistic with the whole activity.
“We are very encouraged with our first test of Kenya’s previously unexplored deep water basin, in which mudlog and well-site evaluation of core data indicates the presence of a working petroleum system with reservoir-quality sands”, said Bob Daniels, Anadarko senior vice-president, worldwide exploration, in a statement.
Daniels said Kubwa tested multiple play concepts and provided useful data regarding the prospectivity of Anadarko’s 6-million-acre position offshore Kenya. The rig will now move to drill the Kiboko well on Block L-11A offshore southern Kenya.
Anadarko operates the L-07 Block with a 50-percent working interest. Co-ventures in the L-07 Block include Total E&P Kenya B.V. (40-percent) and PTT Exploration & Production Plc (10 percent).
However, the firm got positive reports on their Mozambique block. They drilled a new natural gas accumulation near the center of Offshore Area 1 in the Rovuma basin offshore Mozambique. The Orca-1 well cut 190 net ft of natural gas pay in a Paleocene fan system in an accumulation fully contained in Offshore Area 1.
The Orca-1 exploration well was drilled to a total depth of approximately 16,391 feet (4,996 meters), in water depths of approximately 3,481 feet (1,061 meters).
The group plans to drill two appraisal wells after drilling its Linguado and Espadarte exploratory wells on prospects farther north on the block.
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