{"id":1746,"date":"2014-09-09T14:30:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T13:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilnewskenya.com\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2015-09-07T13:52:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T13:52:49","slug":"swala-energy-to-drill-2-wells-in-tanzania-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/swala-energy-to-drill-2-wells-in-tanzania-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Swala Energy to drill 2 wells in Tanzania in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian explorer Swala Energy that has three licenses in the East Africa Rift has said it plans to drill 2 wells in its Tanzanian licenses in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In a presentation at the Good Oil Conference today Geoscientist Alicia Strother told delegates this is after it completes a 640Km 2D seismic in the Kilosa-Kilombero License as well as the Pangani license having completed a 560km 2D seismic in 2013 as well as 14,393 line km airborne data in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the company expects to start the acquisition of \u00a0a 440km 2D seismic in late September in the Kilosa-Kilombero License with additional kilometers having been reserved for potential leads: 380km planned with 60km yet to be decided<\/p>\n<p>In the Kilosa-Kilombero License Swala Energy is targeting fault-related structural highs along the basin edges.<\/p>\n<p>In the Pangani license Swala Energy has already started to acquire 200km with additional kilometres have been reserved for potential leads: 180km planned with 20km yet to be decided.<\/p>\n<p>In the Pangani license that falls in the Moshi basin Swala Energy is targeting fault-related structural highs along the basin edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian explorer Swala Energy that has three licenses in the East Africa Rift has said it plans to drill 2 wells in its Tanzanian licenses in 2015. In a presentation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/swala-energy-to-drill-2-wells-in-tanzania-in-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1747,"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":[11],"tags":[682,1028,1329,1969,2447,2466],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-east-africa-rift-system","tag-good-oil-conference","tag-kilosa-kilombero-license","tag-pangani-license","tag-swala-energy","tag-tanzania","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/swala-energy-ears.png?fit=329%2C474&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-sa","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3888,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/swala-completes-farm-out-of-kilosa-kilombero-and-pangani-licence-interests-to-tpl\/","url_meta":{"origin":1746,"position":0},"title":"Swala Energy Completes Farm-Out Of Tanzania&#8217;s Kilosa-Kilombero And Pangani Licence Interests To TPL","author":"","date":"October 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Swala Energy has announced that its subsidiary Swala Oil and Gas (Tanzania) Plc and Tata Petrodyne Limited (TPL) have finalised the outstanding terms of their farmout agreement for the Kilosa-Kilombero and Pangani licences in Tanzania. 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