{"id":14606,"date":"2025-01-01T20:15:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T20:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=14606"},"modified":"2025-01-07T20:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T20:19:18","slug":"namibia-galp-energia-completes-the-mopane-2a-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/namibia-galp-energia-completes-the-mopane-2a-well\/","title":{"rendered":"NAMIBIA: Galp Energia Completes the Mopane-2A well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Galp (80%, operator), together with its partners NAMCOR and Custos (10% each), has successfully drilled and logged the Mopane-2A well (Well #4) in PEL83, which was spudded on December 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mopane-2A found a hydrocarbon column of gas-condensate in AVO-3 with a thin net pay in the reservoir sweet spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The well also discovered a hydrocarbon column of light oil in a smaller reservoir, AVO-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both reservoirs showed good quality sands, with good porosities and permeabilities, high pressures and low fluid viscosities characteristics, with minimum CO2<\/sub> and no H2<\/sub>S concentrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, in line with all previous Mopane wells, no water contacts were found. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Galp and its partners will continue to analyse and integrate all new acquired data to allow a better understanding of the Mopane complex. Galp will continue to assess the commerciality of the discoveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of the ongoing E&A campaign in the wider Mopane area, the drillship is now moving to the Mopane-3X exploration well location (Well #5), targeting two stacked prospects AVO-10 & AVO-13 with expected spud date around 1st <\/sup>January 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In parallel, the joint venture is carrying out a high-density and high-resolution proprietary 3D development seismic campaign over the Mopane complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Galp (80%, operator), together with its partners NAMCOR and Custos (10% each), has successfully drilled and logged the Mopane-2A well (Well #4) in PEL83, which was spudded on December 2. … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":14205,"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":[11447,4107,11165,11731,11732,7913,1675],"class_list":["post-14606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-southern-africa","category-top-news","tag-custos","tag-galp-energia","tag-mopane","tag-mopane-2a-well","tag-mopane-3x-e","tag-namcor","tag-namibia","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Namibia-Mopane.jpg?fit=748%2C844&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-3NA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14203,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/namibia-galp-provides-update-on-mopane-1x-well\/","url_meta":{"origin":14606,"position":0},"title":"NAMIBIA: Galp Provides Update on Mopane-1X well","author":"","date":"January 29, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Galp\u00a0(80%, operator), together with its partners\u00a0NAMCOR\u00a0and\u00a0Custos\u00a0(10% each), has successfully drilled, cored, and logged a deeper target\u00a0(AVO-2)\u00a0of the\u00a0Mopane-1X well in block PEL83, offshore Namibia. 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