Results of Savannah Petroleum PLC’s third indicated oil discovery in the productive Agadem Rift basin of Niger support plans for an early production system, says Chief Executive Officer Andrew Knott.
Savannah is exercising a drilling contract option for a fourth exploration well after logging 9 m of net oil-bearing sandstone in its Kunama-1 well in the R3 part of its R3/R4 production sharing contract area.
Pay is in the E1 and E5 reservoir units of the primary Eocene Sokor Alternances objective. Wireline logs indicated good reservoir quality.
Oil appears to be light, equivalent to oil sampled in the second exploratory well, Amdigh-1 (OGJ Online, June 6, 2018).
The Great Wall Drilling Co. Niger SARL GW 215 rig drilled the Kunama well, which is northeast of both the Amdigh-1 and initial discovery well, Bushiya-1, to 2,460 m TMD.
Savannah, of London, has suspended the wells for extended production testing later in the year.
The rig will drill the Eridal-1 well between the Amdigh and Kunama wells, targeting Sokor Alternances and Upper Sokor.
Savannah has options for five more wells.