A unit of African Petroleum Corp. Ltd., Perth, has been awarded two deepwater blocks totaling more than 4.5 million acres in the Atlantic off Senegal.
African Petroleum Senegal will be operator with 90% interests in the Rufisque Offshore Profond and Senegal Offshore Sud Profond blocks. Its exploratory program will target deepwater Upper Cretaceous submarine fans considered to have similar potential as discoveries in Jubilee field off Ghana and the Mercury discovery off Sierra Leone.
African Petroleum holds a 100% interest in blocks LB-08 and LB-09 off Liberia, where it has shot 5,100 sq km of 3D seismic. It has drilled one well on LB-09 with encouraging results and plans to drill another well in the same block in the first quarter of 2012.
African Petroleum holds a 100% interest in Block SL-03 off Sierra Leone where it has shot 2,500 sq km of 3D seismic. The company also holds a 60% operating interest in blocks A1 and A4 off Gambia, where it has shot 2,500 sq km of 3D seismic in conjunction with its partner Buried Hill Gambia BV.
Alan Petzet | Chief Editor Exploration
Alan Petzet is Chief Editor-Exploration of Oil & Gas Journal in Houston. He is editor of the Weekly E&D Newsletter, emailed to OGJ subscribers, and a regular contributor to the OGJ Online subscriber website.
Petzet joined OGJ in 1981 after 13 years in the Tulsa World business-oil department. He was named OGJ Exploration Editor in 1990. A native of Tulsa, he has a BA in journalism from the University of Tulsa.