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“FFS has been built with a strong R&D focus liquefaction options.”
and the company successfully completed a pilot Canning said FFS aims to produce LNG
project in 2020 when it imported multiple LNG from other local gas sources in 2024 and to com-
iso-containers for internal use and testing at mence the proof-of-concept trial with Kinetiko
its Cape Town terminal facility,” he continued. soon thereafter.
“We have partnered with Galileo Technologies, The agreement provides the opportunity
a pioneer in the decarbonisation of the energy for FFS Refiners to purchase natural gas. At the
value chain, developing modular solutions for same time, Kinetiko believes that its reserves
LNG, biogas, gydrogen and smart compression have the potential to grow with the interest and
sectors, to offer the local market small-scale investment of off-take partners for its gas. ™

Shell strikes oil once again with

Jonker-1X well offshore Namibia

NAMIBIA SHELL (UK) has reportedly struck oil again at
the PEL 39 deepwater licence area in the Orange
basin offshore Namibia, as its partners in the
project revealed on March 6 that a discovery had
been made in the Jonker-1X exploration well.
The company announced its first find at the
Graff field in early 2022, and now its partners
QatarEnergy and National Petroleum Corp. of
Namibia (NAMCOR) are reporting positive
results from the Jonker field.
According to statements from QatarEnergy
and NAMCOR, Shell spudded the Jonker-1X
well in 2,210-metre-deep water at a site about
270 km from shore in December 2022. It drilled
the well to a total depth of 6,168 metres using
the Deepsea Bollsta semi-submersible drilling
rig and finished drilling in March of this year.
The company is currently evaluating the data it
has collected and plans further appraisal drilling
to determine the size and recoverable potential
of the discovery.
Jonker-1X is the third well drilled at the PEL
39 block within the last year, NAMCOR noted.
Equity in the PEL-39 project is held by a con-
sortium consisting of Shell, the operator, with Jonker is the third discovery made thus far at PEL 39 (Image: QatarEnergy)
45%; QatarEnergy, with 45%; and NAMCOR,
with 10%. was the third oil discovery made in the Orange
Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, Qatar’s minister of basin offshore Namibia, following the Graff-1
state for energy affairs and the president and and Venus-1X finds by Shell and TotalEnergies
CEO of QatarEnergy, expressed satisfaction respectively. He also stressed the vast potential
with the latest discovery, the third oil find made of the deepwater portions of the Orange basin.
in Namibia’s offshore zone to date. Al-Kaabi Shell was the first to make a major find in
congratulated QatarEnergy’s partners, Shell Namibia last year. NAMCOR confirmed the
and NAMCOR, as well as the government of discovery of hydrocarbons in the Graff-1 well at
Namibia, for their support of the project. the PEL 39 block in February, and TotalEnergies
Meanwhile, NAMCOR’s upstream explo- (France) announced later in the same month
ration executive Victoria Sibeya congratulated that it had made another find in the Venus-1X
Shell and QatarEnergy for safely completing well at the PEL 56 block.
Jonker-1X, stating that the results demon- Venus was initially thought to hold 300-
strated the significant hydrocarbon potential of 500mn barrels of light crude, but the figure now
deepwater fields in the Namibian section of the looks to be at least 3bn barrels, high enough to
Orange basin. make Venus the biggest discovery in sub-Saha-
For his part, NAMCOR managing direc- ran Africa in several decades. Graff, meanwhile,
tor Immanuel Mulunga noted that Jonker-1X may hold 1bn barrels or more of oil. ™

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