{"id":14217,"date":"2024-02-10T15:08:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T15:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=14217"},"modified":"2024-02-10T15:08:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T15:08:44","slug":"equatorial-guinea-panoro-energy-provides-an-update-on-the-drilling-campaign-on-block-g-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/equatorial-guinea-panoro-energy-provides-an-update-on-the-drilling-campaign-on-block-g-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Panoro Energy Provides an Update on the Drilling campaign on Block G in January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Panoro Energy provides an update on the drilling campaign offshore Equatorial Guinea that commenced on Block G in January. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Upon recommendation of the Operator, Trident Energy, the joint venture has decided to terminate the current rig contract. The joint venture is of the view that the rig is not operationally in a condition to safely drill the wells.&nbsp; The Operator is, on behalf of the joint venture, evaluating alternative options that will allow for the recommencement and safe completion of the intended drilling campaign (including the Kosmos operated Akeng Deep exploration well) at the earliest opportunity, potentially during Q2 subject to rig availability and terms of alternative options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>John Hamilton, CEO of Panoro, commented:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThe joint venture will not compromise on safety, which is of paramount importance, and has acted decisively and responsibly in taking this course of action.&nbsp; Based on our current estimates, the pause in drilling is not expected to affect Panoro\u2019s shareholder distributions, financial and operational targets for the year. The postponement of the drilling campaign results in a more beneficial phasing of capital expenditures on a group-wide basis.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panoro Energy provides an update on the drilling campaign offshore Equatorial Guinea that commenced on Block G in January. \u00a0 Upon recommendation of the Operator, Trident Energy, the joint venture &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/equatorial-guinea-panoro-energy-provides-an-update-on-the-drilling-campaign-on-block-g-in-january\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":14218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7447,7442,11],"tags":[9081,789,8316,8051],"class_list":["post-14217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-central-africa","category-countries","category-top-news","tag-block-g","tag-equatorial-guinea","tag-panoro-energy","tag-trident-energy","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Equatorial-Guinea-Block-G.gif?fit=899%2C831&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-3Hj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14280,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/equatorial-guinea-panoro-energy-secures-rig-to-recommence-drilling-offshore-block-g\/","url_meta":{"origin":14217,"position":0},"title":"EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Panoro Energy Secures Rig to Recommence Drilling Offshore Block G","author":"","date":"April 24, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Panoro Energy has announced that following an evaluation of available options the operator of Block G offshore Equatorial Guinea, Trident Energy, has on behalf of the joint venture awarded a contract for the Noble Venturer drill ship to recommence infill drilling at the Ceiba Field and Okume Complex. 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Alongside our Joint Venture partners, Kosmos Energy, Panoro Energy, GE Petrol and the Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons, we have agreed a material time extension of the PSC covering both the Ceiba field and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Central Africa&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Central Africa","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/category\/countries\/central-africa\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kosmos-energy.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kosmos-energy.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kosmos-energy.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kosmos-energy.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kosmos-energy.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":15756,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/panoro-energy-provides-an-operational-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":14217,"position":3},"title":"Panoro Energy Provides an Operational Update","author":"Samuel Kamau Mbote","date":"May 7, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Equatorial Guinea As previously communicated, production at Block G offshore Equatorial Guinea (Panoro 14.25 percent) has been impacted by unplanned facilities related downtime at the Ceiba field Progress is being made with partial restoration of production at Ceiba achieved. 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