Ophir Energy, a UK-based company, focused on oil and gas exploration in Africa, today announced an updated reserves estimate for Jodari field, offshore Tanzania. Following the successful completion of the multi-well Jodari appraisal programme and Drill Stem Test (DST), Ophir management has increased the original 3.4 TCF mean recoverable resource estimate of the Jodari Field [...]
Statoil and co-venturer ExxonMobil have today announced their third high impact discovery in Block 2 offshore Tanzania in a year. The discovery of 4-6 TCF of natural gas in place in the Tangawizi-1 well brings the total in-place volumes up to 15-17 TCF. “The success in Block 2 is the result of an ambitious and successful [...]
BG Group today announced it had completed its appraisal programme in the Jodari field of Block 1 offshore Tanzania, with a drill stem test on the original natural gas discovery well confirming the excellent quality of the Tertiary reservoir. The drill stem test on the Jodari-1 well, the first in deep water off Tanzania, flowed [...]
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Ophir Energy plc announces the successful results of its appraisal programme on the Mzia field, Block 1 Tanzania, and the commencement of its Block 1 flow testing programme. Ophir holds 40% of Blocks 1, 3 and 4; the BG Group operates with 60%. Successful Mzia-2 Appraisal The Mzia-2 appraisal well was drilled approximately 4km to [...]
Statoil today announces that the Lavani-2 exploration and appraisal well has resulted in a new natural gas discovery offshore Tanzania. The Statoil-operated Lavani-2 well successfully appraised the Lavani-1 discovery reservoir in the Palaeogene. When deepening the well to the second target, a separate and significant gas bearing reservoir in the Cretaceous was encountered. Statoil and [...]
Leighton Offshore has completed the Single Point Mooring System (SPM) installation for the Tanzanian Ports Authority (TPA) and the first tanker of imported white product (diesel) has been offloaded. The project is located South East of the Port of Dar Es Salaam and comprised the Design, Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, Installation and Pre-Commissioning of a replacement [...]
On Thursday, 8 November 2012, His Excellency Jaykaya Kikwete, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, laid the foundation stone at the Kinyerezi Gas Receiving Station for the start of construction of the Mnazi Bay to Dar es Salaam Gas Pipeline Project. The 532km pipeline and its associated facilities are expected to be completed and [...]
Orca Exploration Group Inc. and its operating subsidiary PanAfrican Energy Tanzania Limited jointly announce that its new SS-11 well is onstream which is expected to maintain and strengthen reliability of gas production from Tanzania’s Songo Songo gas field. The new production well SS-11, completed at Songo Songo Island in June 2012, was flowline connected to [...]
Statoil Tanzania AS (Statoil) has hired KBR to perform pre-front end engineering and design (pre-FEED) studies for a prospective liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Tanzania, East Africa. The pre-FEED study is designed to help Statoil further assess the viability of developing an LNG facility to export natural gas from this East African region. The [...]
Ophir Energy plc (“Ophir” or “the Company”) announces that the Papa-1 well has made the first Cretaceous gas discovery outboard of the Rufiji Delta in Block 3, offshore Tanzania and is the sixth consecutive discovery by Ophir offshore Tanzania. Highlights: Play-finder exploration well; successful first test of Cretaceous targets outboard of Rufiji Delta in Block [...]
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