More Kudu drilling due off Namibia

Sept. 6, 2006
Tullow Oil PLC, London, plans to spud a well in the Kudu East area in the Atlantic Ocean off Namibia in March 2007 to seek more reserves in undeveloped, giant Kudu gas field.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Sept. 6 -- Tullow Oil PLC, London, plans to spud a well in the Kudu East area in the Atlantic Ocean off Namibia in March 2007 to seek more reserves in undeveloped, giant Kudu gas field.

"Concluding the chain of commercial agreements from the gas sales through to the power purchase agreements to allow the project to progress to the construction phase is becoming the most significant challenge to the project schedule," Tullow said (OGJ Online, July 13, 2004).

Integrated geological and seismic studies of the Kudu gas plays have led to a refined subsurface model, and the company has chosen two appraisal well locations for drilling in 2007. The second well will be drilled if the first, believed to have the potential to discover several trillion cubic feet of gas, is successful.