{"id":1567,"date":"2014-08-05T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilnewskenya.com\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2015-09-07T14:56:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T14:56:44","slug":"kenyas-first-offshore-discovery-misses-commercial-threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/kenyas-first-offshore-discovery-misses-commercial-threshold\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya\u2019s sunbird-1 offshore well discovery misses commercial threshold"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sunbird-1 well in Kenya\u2019s offshore block L10A that which showed oil and gas samples did not register enough reserves to constitute a commercial discovery according to PTTEP one of the companies with interest on the block.<\/p>\n

According to the company\u2019s latest operating results PTTEP expects to write off this well in the third quarter of 2014.<\/p>\n

According to Pancontinental that confirmed oil deposits<\/a> in the well the gross oil column in the well was assessed to be 14m thick beneath a gross gas column of 29.6m in a reefal limestone reservoir in the Sunbird Miocene Pinnacle Reef in area L10A.<\/p>\n

The confirmation was after months of analysis that verified the sunbird-1 well as the first ever oil discovery off the East African coast.<\/p>\n

Despite the disappointment PTTEP says the findings will be valuable for future geological studies especially offshore where a number of companies are planning to sink more wells<\/a> motivated by the sunbird prospect.<\/p>\n

Recently Pancontinental oil and gas announced it is considering drilling a second well in the Kenyan block L10A where BG Group is the operator.<\/p>\n

The Sunbird-1 prospect was an important finding as its results were the first proof of the presence a prospective oil system in the Lamu Basin offshore Kenya.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe oil and gas have been geochemically typed in detail and the prospective source rocks have been dated and characterized for use in future exploration,\u201d Pancontinental said in a statement while confirming the oil discovery in June.<\/p>\n

Block L10A has 3 joint venture partners including BG Group which is the operator with 50 percent interest, PTTEP with 31.25 percent and Pancontinental oil and gas with 18.75 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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