Eni SPA has been awarded a 100% interest in three deepwater and ultradeepwater blocks in the Lamu basin offshore Kenya.
Eni signed production sharing contracts on the L-21, L-23, and L-24 blocks totaling more than 35,000 sq km. The initial phase work program calls for seismic surveys.
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.
