Tullow Oil makes another oil discovery in Kenya

Tullow Oil has announced that it has made another oil discovery at its Ngamia-1 exploration well in Kenya.

Initial drilling results appeared to indicate that the well had intersected further oil-bearing sands.

The well, located in the Turkana County of Kenya Block 10BB, encountered oil and gas shows over a gross interval of 140m, from a depth of 1,800m to 1,940m.

The Ngamia prospect forms the first site to be tested as part of a multi-well drilling campaign in Kenya and Ethiopia.

An earlier drilling programme in March recovered more than 20m of net movable oil with an API greater than 30 degrees, which had properties equal to the light waxy crude discovered in Uganda.

The well will continue to be drilled to a total depth of 2,700m and then logged and sampled. This is expected to take a further three weeks to complete.

The firm operates Kenya’s Block 10BB with a 50% interest and Africa Oil holds the remaining stake.