Kharas-1 well might have two surprises in store
As the exploration community read the news around Rhino Resources’ Volans-1X “high liquid-yield gas condensate” discovery this week – is it good news to have proven yet another fluid type?…
Namibia
This may be a reason why Woodside decided not to farm in to PEL 87 in Namibia
Almost a month ago, Sintana Energy “broke” the news that Australian major Woodside decided not to exercise its right to farm into Licence PEL 87 in Namibian waters, north of…
Could the publication of drone imagery have something to do with a last peak in ReconAfrica’s share price before it fell after news of its latest exploration well?
Late last week, ReconAfrica announced the results of its 4th well in their PEL76 licence in the Damara Fold Belt, onshore Namibia. According to the company, the Naingopo well reached…
New wildcat drilling campaigns set to drown out doubts of commerciality in the Orange Basin of Namibia
Following a lull in activity during the middle of 2024, and despite the recent news from Shell and Chevron (Kapana-1), exploration and appraisal drilling returns full throttle in the highly…
The writing was on the wall
Yesterday, Reuters broke the news that Shell has written off a $400 million exploration investment over “an oil discovery” in PEL39 in Namibia’s deep-water area. Even though a field name…
Rise of onshore exploration campaigns in southwest Africa
ReconAfrica has spud the Naingopo exploration well onshore northeast Namibia on PEL 73 (partners Namcor) on July 7, 2024. This latest drilling campaign will be the first to target the…
This is what David Sturt said in 2018: “Plenty of hydrocarbon potential off Namibia”
David Sturt, Chief Operating Officer of Azinam Limited, a Namibia-focused exploration company, spoke at Africa Oil Week in Cape Town in November 2018. A month before that, we published this…
Getting close to Mopane
For obvious reasons, there has been a lot of media coverage today on the test results of the Mopane-1X well in Namibian waters. The well flowed at 14 kboepd at…
New light oil discovery draws attention away from the Orange Basin central axis to northern promise
Reports continue to come in from the Namibia Orange Basin drilling campaigns of Shell, TotalEnergies and Galp, lighting up this enormous Cretaceous delta basin for future production potential. Shell are…
What could be behind the downgrade of Shell’s deep-water discoveries in Namibia?
This week, Namibia’s petroleum commissioner Maggy Shino announced that Shell has thus far discovered 200 million barrels of recoverable oil at Graff and 300 million barrels of recoverable oil at…
ReconAfrica’s exploration program in one of the most underexplored basins
It is a rare opportunity in the twenty-first century to explore an untouched basin for hydrocarbons, but this is the position ReconAfrica finds itself in exploring the Kavango area, east…
The striking similarities between Namibia and Brazil’s conjugate margins
Regional seismic lines indicate that the Pelotas Basin in Brazil contains the same play ingredients as the Orange Basin in Namibia where the Venus discovery was recently made.