{"id":14303,"date":"2024-05-04T08:31:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T08:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=14303"},"modified":"2024-05-04T08:31:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T08:31:03","slug":"morocco-chariot-commences-drilling-operations-at-the-loukos-onshore-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/morocco-chariot-commences-drilling-operations-at-the-loukos-onshore-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"MOROCCO: Chariot Commences Drilling Operations at the Loukos Onshore licence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chariot Limited has announced that drilling operations have commenced at the Loukos Onshore licence onshore Morocco (Chariot, Operator 75%, ONHYM, 25%) with the spud of the RZK-1 well on the Gaufrette prospect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Gaufrette Main target has Best Estimate recoverable prospective resources of 10 Bcf<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Option to penetrate a deeper target identified on newly reprocessed 3D seismic data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Strong read through for other geologically linked prospects in the Gaufrette area with success<br>potentially unlocking combined Best Estimate recoverable prospective resources of 26 Bcf<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Results will be announced on completion of drilling<br>Duncan Wallace, Technical Director of Chariot commented:<br>\u201cWe are very pleased to commence this onshore campaign, kicking off the first of our exciting drilling operations for Chariot this year. We also continue to work up the prospectivity across this acreage as we see significant upside both in the vicinity of our high graded well locations and beyond. I would like to thank our operational team for their hard work and efforts in getting this drilling underway within ten months of licence award and ONHYM for their ongoing support and partnership. We look forward to providing an update on the results in due course.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chariot Limited has announced that drilling operations have commenced at the Loukos Onshore licence onshore Morocco (Chariot, Operator 75%, ONHYM, 25%) with the spud of the RZK-1 well on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/morocco-chariot-commences-drilling-operations-at-the-loukos-onshore-licence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":14304,"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":[7442,7446,11],"tags":[9825,11541,11540,9372,11539],"class_list":["post-14303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-north-africa","category-top-news","tag-chariot-limited","tag-gaufrette-area","tag-loukos-onshore-licence","tag-onhym","tag-rzk-1-well","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Morocco-loukos-onshore.jpg?fit=704%2C624&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-3IH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14329,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/morocco-chariot-annouces-gas-discovery-at-oba-1-well\/","url_meta":{"origin":14303,"position":0},"title":"MOROCCO: Chariot Annouces Gas Discovery at OBA-1 Well","author":"","date":"May 29, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Chariot Limited has announced the results from the drilling of the OBA-1 well on the Dartois prospect, the second of a two well drilling campaign, in the Loukos Onshore licence onshore Morocco (Chariot, operator 75%, ONHYM, 25%). 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This has had a positive impact on the understanding of the distribution and extent of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Countries&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Countries","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/category\/countries\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Morocco-Lixus.jpg?fit=458%2C466&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13407,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/morocco-completion-feed-for-key-componenets-in-the-lixus-offshore-gas-development-project\/","url_meta":{"origin":14303,"position":2},"title":"MOROCCO: Completion FEED for Key Componenets in the Lixus Offshore Gas Development Project","author":"","date":"March 8, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Chariot Limited has announced that it has now completed the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) on the key components of its flagship Anchois gas development project, offshore Morocco. 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The Company will have a 75% working interest in each licence, with ONHYM retaining a 25% stake.Adonis Pouroulis, CEO: \u201cWe are pleased to have completed the transfer of these licences\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Countries&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Countries","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/category\/countries\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Morocco-Anchois-Gas-Development.png?fit=496%2C518&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11388,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/morocco-chariot-commences-drilling-operations-on-the-anchois-gas-development-project\/","url_meta":{"origin":14303,"position":5},"title":"MOROCCO: Chariot Commences Drilling Operations on the Anchois Gas Development Project","author":"","date":"December 15, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Chariot has announced that the Stena Don drilling rig has now arrived on location in the Lixus licence, offshore Morocco, to carry out drilling operations on the Anchois gas development project.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00b7\u00a0Operations to drill the Anchois-2 gas appraisal & exploration well and re-enter the previously drilled Anchois-1 gas discovery well\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Countries&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Countries","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/category\/countries\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/MOROCCO-Anchois-1.jpg?fit=700%2C577&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/MOROCCO-Anchois-1.jpg?fit=700%2C577&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/MOROCCO-Anchois-1.jpg?fit=700%2C577&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/MOROCCO-Anchois-1.jpg?fit=700%2C577&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14305,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14303\/revisions\/14305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}