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<\/a><\/p>\nThis is part of the planned work program by the block operator Africa Oil which is expected to range between 400 and 1200 kilometer for the initial exploration period which expires in February 2016.<\/p>\n
The Rift Basin Area covers 42,519 square kilometers and is on trend and extending to the northeast of the highly prospective blocks in the Tertiary rift valley including the South Omo Block, and Kenyan Blocks 10BA, 10BB, 13T, and 12A.<\/p>\n
Africa Oil is Operator and owns 50% in the Ethiopia Rift Basin Area Block with Marathon Oil Ethiopia Limited B.V., holding the remaining 50%.<\/p>\n
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[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Africa Oil and its partners have announced that 2D seismic acquisition of a 400 to 800 kilometer land and lake survey earlier planned for Q4 2014 will begin … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2360,"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":[16,19,20,70,323,809,811,1501,2160],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-10bb","tag-12a","tag-13t","tag-africa-oil","tag-blocks-10ba","tag-ethiopia","tag-ethiopia-rift-basin","tag-marathon-oil-ethiopia-limited","tag-rift-basin-area","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/rift-basin-block-map.png?fit=395%2C243&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-C1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6272,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/africa-oil-receives-one-year-license-extension-ethiopias-rift-basin-block\/","url_meta":{"origin":2357,"position":0},"title":"Africa Oil Receives One Year License Extension in Ethiopia\u2019s Rift Basin Block","author":"","date":"September 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Rift Basin Block operator Africa Oil has announced that the Ethiopian Ministry\u00a0of Mines,\u00a0Petroleum\u00a0and Natural Gas has awarded the Canadian company a one year extension to the block license which will now expire in February 2018. 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