Ophir Energy and partners BG Group have announced they will resume their offshore Tanzania drilling campaign to further explore the resource potential of the Jodari blocks
The first three wells in the campaign will be Jodari South-1, Jodari North-1 and a re-entry into Jodari-1.
Nick Cooper, CEO of Ophir, said, “The next phase of drilling is required to confirm the role of the Jodari field as an anchor asset to support Tanzania's first multi-train LNG development. To date the Ophir-BG Joint Venture has discovered 13.5-21 TCF of gas-in-place across Blocks 1, 3 and 4 and we are looking forward to receiving further insight into the full scope of resources on these blocks.
“After these next three wells we will return to drilling high impact exploration prospects, both on the significant prospect inventory on the established intraslope play and, potentially, also on the recently identified Basin Floor Fan play,” he added.
The Deep Sea Metro 1 rig has now returned to Block 1 and will drill the top-hole section of Jodari North-1, located 40 km northeast of Mtwara port. It will then move on to drill Jodari South-1, located approximately 35km northeast of Mtwara and 3.5km southwest of the Jodari-1 well location, and a side track from Jodari South into the main Jodari field. The rig will then return to complete Jodari North-1 and a drill stem test (DST) will be performed in Q1 2013.
Combined, these three wells will confirm reservoir parameters across the Oligocene aged main reservoir of the Jodari complex, Ophir said.
In May 2010, BG Group entered into a farm-in agreement with Ophir whereby it acquired 60 per cent interest in each of the blocks, with Ophir retaining 40 per cent.
