{"id":14372,"date":"2024-06-18T12:02:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T12:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=14372"},"modified":"2024-06-18T12:02:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T12:02:06","slug":"namibia-reconafrica-announces-upcoming-spud-of-the-naingopo-exploration-well-pel-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/namibia-reconafrica-announces-upcoming-spud-of-the-naingopo-exploration-well-pel-73\/","title":{"rendered":"NAMIBIA: ReconAfrica Announces Upcoming Spud of the Naingopo Exploration Well, PEL 73"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reconnaissance Energy Africa announces an operations update with respect to activity relating to Petroleum Exploration Licence 73 (PEL 73), onshore northeast Namibia, and an update on the joint venture process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brian Reinsborough, President and CEO commented: \u201c<em>Our operations teams and contractors<br>are very busy completing the camp and rig moves this week. Since our last update the Jarvie-1<br>drilling rig has undergone all its maintenance and certification processes with no major issues<br>noted. It has been rigged down and is moving approximately 80 kilometers to the Naingopo<br>location. The conductor hole has been drilled and we continue to track for a spud toward the end<br>of the month. The well is expected to take 90 days to drill, targeting multiple reservoir intervals in<br>the highly prospective Damara Fold Belt. Our joint venture process continues to progress towards<br>closure as we target a completed transaction ahead of the start of drilling of the Naingopo well.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris Sembritzky, SVP Exploration commented: <em>\u201cThere is tremendous excitement about the<br>upcoming spud of the Naingopo exploration well, which will be the first well to test the Damara<br>Fold Belt. The thorough petroleum systems work that our team has conducted over the last six<br>months gives us increased confidence in finding hydrocarbons in our first well. In the event of<br>success, we have substantial running room with an additional four prospects and 20 leads that<br>have been mapped and defined.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nick Steinsberger, SVP Drilling and Completions commented: \u201c<em>The operations team is very<br>excited to finalize the preparations to spud the upcoming Naingopo exploration well. All the drilling<br>crews are in place with both Namibian nationals and expats, the majority of whom have worked<br>on the Jarvie-1 before, ensuring operational continuity. All the equipment and services needed to<br>drill the well are either onsite or scheduled to arrive in the next two weeks.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First Damara Fold Belt Well \u2013 Naingopo Prospect<br>The move of the working camp and the drilling rig from the Wisdom Farm 5-1 location are<br>wrapping up, with everything expected to be operational on the Naingopo well site towards the<br>end of the month. The well remains on schedule to begin drilling this month and is targeting 163<br>million barrels of unrisked prospective oil resources or 843 billion cubic feet of unrisked<br>prospective natural gas resources, net to ReconAfrica, based on the most recent prospective<br>resources report prepared by Netherland, Sewell &amp; Associates, Inc. (NSAI) dated March 12,<br>2024, and available on the Company\u2019s website (the \u201cNSAI Report\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joint Venture Process Update<br>The Company continues to progress its farm out joint venture process which we expect to<br>conclude in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reconnaissance Energy Africa announces an operations update with respect to activity relating to Petroleum Exploration Licence 73 (PEL 73), onshore northeast Namibia, and an update on the joint venture process. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/namibia-reconafrica-announces-upcoming-spud-of-the-naingopo-exploration-well-pel-73\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":14373,"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":[7442,7445,11],"tags":[10801,8310,11584,1675,8312],"class_list":["post-14372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-southern-africa","category-top-news","tag-damara-fold-belt","tag-jarvie-1","tag-naingopo-exploration-well","tag-namibia","tag-pel-73","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Namibia-Naingopo.png?fit=633%2C375&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-3JO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14388,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/namibia-reconafrica-spuds-the-naingopo-exploration-well-on-pel-73\/","url_meta":{"origin":14372,"position":0},"title":"NAMIBIA: ReconAfrica Spuds the Naingopo exploration well on PEL 73","author":"","date":"July 8, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Reconnaissance Energy Africa and its joint venture partner NAMCOR have announced the spudding of the Naingopo exploration well on Petroleum Exploration Licence 73 (PEL 73), onshore northeast\u00a0Namibia. 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