Tullow’s Agete-1 Well Hits Oil Onshore Kenya

Tullow Oil Plc announced in a press release that the Agete-1 exploration well in Block 13T, onshore northern Kenya, has discovered and sampled moveable oil with an estimated 100 m (328 ft) of net oil pay in good-quality sandstone reservoirs.

The Agete-1 wildcat well is part of a major exploration campaign and has made the fifth consecutive oil discovery in the first of a chain of multiple rift basins across Tullow’s acreage in the region. This discovery derisks several follow-on prospects located to the north and is on trend with the Twiga South, Ekales, and Ngamia oil discoveries, Tullow said.

The Sakson PR5 rig drilled Agete-1 to a total depth of 1,930 m (6,332 ft). Following completion of logging operations the well will be suspended for future flow testing, which will confirm the net pay count. The rig will then move to drill the Ewoi-1 wildcat in the east of this basin, targeting a rift flank prospect similar to the recent Etuko oil discovery, according to the release.

Tullow operates the Agete-1 well with a 50% interest and Africa Oil (50%) has a nonoperated interest.

Elsewhere in Kenya, exploration and appraisal activities continue to accelerate with the Amosing-1 well in Block 10BB, expected to commence drilling before the end of November with the Weatherford 804 rig. The Etuko-1 well test in Block 10BB also is scheduled to commence this month with the PR Marriott 46 rig, which recently arrived in country, Tullow said. The Ekales-1 well test is scheduled to commence with the new SMP-5 workover unit in early December.

http://www.epmag.com/Production-Drilling/Tullows-Agete-1-Hits-Oil-Onshore-Kenya_126133