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over recent months to design a drilling cam- our prefunders recognise the value that large-
paign for 2021 and believe the scheduled wells scale acquisition of high-quality data can add to
can maintain the exceptional record of over 80% their exploration programmes.”
drilling success which has been achieved on the CGG, December 08 2020
licence to date.”
United Oil & Gas, December 02 2020 Kinetiko completes
third high resolution
SERVICES
CGG signs multi-client aeromagnetic survey for
Amersfoort project
airborne gravity gradient
The EDC-50 rig has a history of successful Kinetiko Energy has announced through its
drilling in the Western Desert. It has been con- survey agreement with incorporated joint venture Afro Energy, in col-
tracted for a drilling programme, starting with laboration with its joint venture partner in South
the ASH-3 development well, with low-cost SNPC in Congo Africa Badimo Gas, that a high resolution aero-
rig-rates linked to oil-price. The campaign will magnetic and radiometric survey has been com-
be funded from operating cashflow. Subject to CGG is mobilising to acquire the industry’s pleted to follow the success of similar adjoining
EGPC approvals, the rig is due to come on site first-ever multi-client airborne gravity and surveys completed in June and August 2020.
before the end of the year, with drilling starting magnetic survey of the onshore Congo Cuvette This survey successfully flew 6,011 line-km,
shortly after this. It is anticipated that the ASH-3 Basin in the Republic of Congo after signing an or 273 square km, over a portion of exploration
well will take up to 60 days to drill and test. agreement with the SNPC and the Ministry of right ER271 and ER38 of the Amersfoort project,
The ASH-3 well will target the producing Hydrocarbons. The project has already received which will geologically connect the two previous
Alam El Bueib (AEB) reservoirs in an area of the significant prefunding from the oil and gas aeromagnetic and radiometric surveys recently
ASH Field updip of the ASH-2 production well, industry. Scheduled for licensing in early 2021, completed over portions of ER38 and ER56.
which came onstream at the beginning of the the survey data will significantly support indus- The results from the survey are anticipated to be
year, and which to date has produced in excess try exploration initiatives by helping to assess received by mid-January 2021 and if successful,
of 1mn barrels. hydrocarbon prospectivity and provide a back- will identify areas for well tests and further pilot
The ASH-3 development will be the first well bone for future exploration of the area. production fields.
due to be drilled by the EDC-50 rig in the 2021 The Congo Cuvette basin is a large underex- Kinetiko Energy, December 06 2020
campaign. United expect the second well in the plored onshore sedimentary basin, in a logisti-
drilling schedule to be an exploration well, tar- cally challenging area for resource exploration. TG-GeoPartners signs
geting the Abu Roash reservoirs in the four-way This airborne geophysical survey will support
dip-closed Prospect D structure in the north of the initiatives of the government of the Republic major multi-client
the Abu Sennan licence, close to the producing of Congo and SNPC to attract investment into
Al Jahraa field. This is a low risk well, located this frontier area. agreement on Keta
close to existing infrastructure, capable of being A specially modified aircraft equipped with
brought into production quickly. CGG’s proprietary Full Spectrum Falcon air- basin offshore Ghana
Average production rates on the Abu Sennan borne technology will simultaneously collect the
Licence for the second half of 2020 to November gravity gradient, gravity, and magnetic data, for TG- GeoPartners are pleased to announce the
29 are circa 2,370 boepd net to United’s work- interpretation by CGG’s experts based in Perth, signing of an agreement with the Petroleum
ing interest. This is a 20% increase to the aver- Australia. The goals of the survey are to under- Commission of Ghana to conduct a major Mul-
age H1-2020 production achieved after United’s stand the sedimentary thickness of the Cuvette, ti-Client 3D Geophysical Survey in the Keta
entry to the licence at the end of February. Aver- and identify prospective structures using the Basin offshore Ghana.
age H2-2020 production is likely to exceed the low-noise Full Spectrum Falcon data. It is esti- The project will comprise the acquisition of
previous guidance of 2,300 boepd net. mated that the Cuvette could contain sediments 14,000 square km of 3D long-offset broadband
In the near term, production is due to benefit up to 9 km thick, but with no modern data col- Multi-Client seismic over open Blocks that
from the completion of the ASH-2 gas pipeline, lected in the basin this will need to be verified. will be available for application. Advanced new
expected to be brought onstream at the start of Geophysical data in the basin to date consists acquisition and imaging techniques will provide
2021. When completed, the pipeline will sub- of 2D seismic data acquired mostly along the improved illumination of complex structures.
stantially increase recovery rates and reduce the Congo River in the 1950’s and 1970’s as well as Acquisition will commence in early 2021 and
need to flare gas, improving the environmental an airborne gravity and magnetic survey in the is expected to take 10 months to complete, with
performance of the licence. This pipeline has 1980s. final processed volumes available in both time
the potential to add up to 1,000 boepd of gross Greg Paleolog, Senior Vice President, Mul- and depth by Q2-2022.
production. ti-Physics, CGG, said: “Our Congo Cuvette Thomas Tsiboe-Darko, Managing Direc-
United’s CEO Brian Larkin commented: Basin multi-client survey will utilise the world’s tor of TG-GeoPartners, commented: “We are
“Following an intense period of planning, we are best airborne geophysical technology in a truly honoured to have concluded this Agreement
delighted to be ready to re-commence drilling frontier area. The Cuvette Basin could be con- with the Petroleum Commission of Ghana to
activities at the Abu Sennan licence, fully funded sidered one of the last provinces in Africa to conduct this very large 3D seismic survey in the
from our operating cashflow. We have worked potentially hold giant to super-giant oil and gas relatively underexplored but highly prospective
closely with the operator, Kuwait Energy Egypt, accumulations. It’s exciting that the SNPC and Keta Basin offshore Ghana.

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