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<\/p>\nInvictus Energy has announced commencement of drilling at the Mukuyu-1 exploration well in SG 4571 commenced on Friday 24 September local time. Drilling will commence from the installed conductor at 67m to a planned depth of ~650m in the 17\u00bd inch intermediate hole section.<\/p>\n
The Mukuyu-1 well is designed to target several stacked Triassic and younger sandstones
\nwithin a 200km2 four-way dip closure on the basement high trend.
\nMukuyu is one of the largest oil and gas exploration prospects to be drilled globally in 2022, targeting a combined prospective resource potential of 20 trillion cubic feet and 845 million barrels of conventional gas condensate, or about 4.3 billion barrels of oil equivalent on a gross mean unrisked basis#
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\nMukuyu-1 will be drilled to a projected depth of 3,500 metres. Drilling and evaluation of the well is prognosed to take approximately 50 to 60 days to complete.<\/p>\n
Mukuyu-1 will be followed by the Baobab-1 well, which will test an independent play along the basin margin in the EPO 1849 block and take approximately 30 to 40 days to complete.<\/p>\n
Baobab-1 well will target stacked Cretaceous and younger sandstones, within four-way
\nand three-way dip closures, against the southern basin bounding rift fault.<\/p>\n
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Baobab displays similar structural characteristics to the play opening Ngamia discovery in Kenya\u2019s Lokichar Basin, which resulted in subsequent discoveries in the \u201cString of Pearls\u201d along the basin margin.<\/p>\n