KAMPALA, UGANDA – Tullow Oil announced last week that it had found more oil in the Kaiso-Tonya area (on-shore) of the Albertine Graben where it has registered successes already.
The Irish prospector said activity in Uganda continues apace with the high impact Ngassa well scheduled to spud in October – an indication that more oil news is set to come in before the end of the year.
A press statement said Tullow had successfully drilled and logged the Mputa-4 appraisal well in Uganda’s Block 2, which the Group operates with a 100% interest.
Mputa 4 is located 1km east of the Mputa-1 discovery well and was drilled to test an adjacent fault block. It said the well reached a total depth of 1,073m and encountered three separate oil bearing zones with a total net pay of 15.4m.
“Down-hole pressure testing and sampling indicated moveable light sweet crude with very good permeabilities as seen in the other Mputa wells,” the statement reads in part.
Mr. Aidan Heavey, the chief executive of Tullow said: “We are very pleased with the results of the three-well appraisal programme in the Kaiso-Tonya area.”
Mputa-4 is the third and final well being drilled as part of the Kaiso-Tonya appraisal programme and has proved the lateral extent of oil bearing reservoirs across the region. The data from the Kaiso-Tonya programme, which includes ongoing 3D seismic and the possibility of further production testing on existing wells, Tullow said will help to determine the ultimate reserve potential of the area and provide critical information for the early production system development.
