{"id":14329,"date":"2024-05-29T13:41:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T13:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=14329"},"modified":"2024-05-29T13:41:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T13:41:03","slug":"morocco-chariot-annouces-gas-discovery-at-oba-1-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/morocco-chariot-annouces-gas-discovery-at-oba-1-well\/","title":{"rendered":"MOROCCO: Chariot Annouces Gas Discovery at OBA-1 Well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>OBA-1 well was safely and efficiently drilled, on time and on budget, to a final measured depth<br>of 901m through the target reservoirs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Following comprehensive evaluation of the well data, including wireline logs, cuttings and gas<br>data, preliminary interpretation:<br>o confirms the presence of reservoirs over an interval of approximately 200m gross<br>thickness, corresponding to the pre-drill targets; and<br>o within which an approximate 70m gross interval of primary interest has been identified<br>containing elevated resistivities coincident with elevated mud gas readings, indicating<br>potential gas pays, with no water-bearing reservoirs identified.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Further post-drill analysis will be conducted in preparation for well flow testing which will<br>determine the well productivity and the gas resource potential of the discovery.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The well will now be suspended to allow future rigless flow testing operations and potential use<br>as a producer well and the rig will then be demobilised.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Duncan Wallace, Technical Director of Chariot commented:<br><\/strong><em>\u201cWe are very pleased to report the successful drilling of the OBA-1 well at the Dartois prospect which<br>now concludes Chariot\u2019s first onshore drilling campaign in Morocco and brings with it positive results<br>for the potential of the Dartois area.<br>We will now integrate the comprehensive data we have obtained from both the RZK-1 and OBA-1 wells<br>with recently reprocessed 3D seismic data to understand the resource potential of the Dartois area, to<br>confirm the optimal future work programme on the discovery and the impact on wider prospectivity<br>across the Loukos licence. Our two first wells have both been successful in confirming our geological<br>model for reservoir distribution and the presence of gas which bodes well for future exploration activity.<br>I would like to thank both our operational team, who once again have shown that that they can drill safe,<br>efficient and successful wells, and ONHYM for their ongoing support and partnership. Our focus on the<br>Loukos licence is to get any commercial discoveries to first gas as quickly as possible.<br>We now look forward to the offshore drilling campaign planned for Q3 2024, on the Anchois gas field,<br>with our new partners Energean, where we are looking to increase the development to over 1 Tcf.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/morocco-chariot-annouces-gas-discovery-at-oba-1-well\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":14330,"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],"tags":[9721,11551,11540,1629,11550,11539],"class_list":["post-14329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-north-africa","tag-chariot","tag-dartois-prospect","tag-loukos-onshore-licence","tag-morocco","tag-oba-1-well","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-1.jpg?fit=704%2C624&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-3J7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14303,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/morocco-chariot-commences-drilling-operations-at-the-loukos-onshore-licence\/","url_meta":{"origin":14329,"position":0},"title":"MOROCCO: Chariot Commences Drilling Operations at the Loukos Onshore licence","author":"","date":"May 4, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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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":10893,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/morocco-chariot-oil-gas-awards-anchois-gas-appraisal-well-services-contract\/","url_meta":{"origin":14329,"position":4},"title":"MOROCCO: Chariot Oil &#038; Gas Awards Anchois Gas Appraisal Well Services Contract","author":"","date":"September 23, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Chariot has announced that it has signed a binding letter of intent with Halliburton, one of the world's largest oil field service companies, for services on Chariot\u2019s planned Anchois gas appraisal well within the Lixus licence, offshore Morocco. 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