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The drilling campaign will help open up the Lalla Mimouna Sud field (Image: SDX Energy)

SDX Energy moves into second phase

of 2021 drilling campaign in Morocco

MOROCCO LONDON-BASED SDX Energy has moved The launch of the second phase was expected
into the second phase of its well drilling cam- earlier last month but was delayed due to travel
paign in Morocco. restrictions related to the coronavirus (COVID-
This phase will include the drilling of the 19) pandemic that affected the mobilisation of
KSR-19 and SAK-1 wells in the country’s north- equipment and personnel into Morocco.
western Gharb basin, the firm said in a state- The drilling campaign will enable the firm to
ment. Additionally, it said, SDX Energy will continue to deliver natural gas to its customers
target the opening of a new area of exploitation, as per contractual requirements. It is designed
Lalla Mimouna Sud, located to the west of its to help meet domestic gas demand in the ener-
core producing area. gy-poor North African country.
Both wells are expected to encounter shallow, The first phase of SDX’s drilling campaign
biogenic gas accumulations, and drilling is due took place between May and July of this year. It
to be completed in December. The company will resulted in the drilling of three wells with gross
announce the operations’ results afterwards. reserves of 1.5bn to 1.6bn cubic feet of gas. ™

Tullow Oil hails operations in Ghana,

calls drilling programme a success

GHANA RAHUL Dhir, the CEO of Tullow Oil (UK/Ire- “We have delivered strong operational per-
land), hailed his company’s operations in a press formance across both Jubilee and TEN (Twen-
release last week. He said that Tullow Oil had eboa-Enyenra-Ntomme) fields this year, and
delivered strong operational performance in its the Ghana drilling programme continues to be
oilfields offshore Ghana. successful,” he said.

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