{"id":2408,"date":"2015-02-04T16:24:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T15:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilnewskenya.com\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2015-09-07T12:42:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T12:42:40","slug":"badada-1-well-drilling-update-in-block-2b-onshore-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/badada-1-well-drilling-update-in-block-2b-onshore-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Badada-1 Well Drilling Update in Block-2B, onshore Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Taipan Resources through its Kenya-based subsidiary Lion Petroleum in its new update drilling operations for the Badada-1 well Block-2B, onshore Kenya have reached to a total depth of 1,647 metres.<\/p>\n<p>A 13 3\/8- inch casing has been successfully run to 1,644 metres MDBRT and cemented in the 17 1\/2-inch hole and the well is currently preparing to drill ahead with the 12 1\/4 -inch hole section to the next casing point which is expected to be at TD.<\/p>\n<p>The well is planned to be drilled to a total depth of between 3,000 and 4,000 metres in order to test primary targets in Tertiary age reservoirs. The well is expected to take up to 70 days from spud to completion.<\/p>\n<p>comprehensive update is expected once operations on the Badada-1 well have been fully completed and analysed.<\/p>\n<p>The Badada-1 well commenced drilling operations on <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/ItZOZ\">7 January<\/a> using the Greatwall for the GW-190 land rig and have also contracted Aberdeen-based Norwell Engineering to manage the drilling operations.<\/p>\n<p>Taipan estimates gross mean un-risked recoverable resources of 251 mmboe (Source: Sproule International Limited (1), February 2014) for Badada.<\/p>\n<p>Block operator Taipan Resources has 30% working interests while Premier Oil has 55% and Tower Resources 15%.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Taipan Resources through its Kenya-based subsidiary Lion Petroleum in its new update drilling operations for the Badada-1 well Block-2B, onshore Kenya have reached to a total depth of 1,647 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/badada-1-well-drilling-update-in-block-2b-onshore-kenya\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2308,"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":[212,274,642,1043,1058,1252,1418,1779,2071,2396,2459,2541],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-badada-1","tag-block-2b","tag-drilling-operations","tag-greatwall","tag-gw-190","tag-kenya","tag-lion-petroleum","tag-norwell-engineering","tag-premier-oil","tag-sproule-international-limited","tag-taipan-resources-inc","tag-tower-resources","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/taipan-badada-1-well1.jpg?fit=576%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-CQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2345,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/badada-1-well-drilling-update-in-kenyas-block-2b\/","url_meta":{"origin":2408,"position":0},"title":"Badada-1 Well Drilling Update in Kenya&#8217;s Block 2B","author":"Samuel Kamau Mbote","date":"January 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"[twitter-follow screen_name='oilnewskenya'] Taipan Resources through its Kenya-based subsidiary Lion Petroleum has provided the following update on drilling operations for the Badada-1 well, Block-2B, onshore Kenya. The Badada-1 well commenced drilling operations on 7 January 2015 and has been drilled to a total depth of 918 metres MDBRT (Measured Depth Below\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Top News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Top News","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/category\/top-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/taipan-badada-1-well1.jpg?fit=576%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/taipan-badada-1-well1.jpg?fit=576%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/taipan-badada-1-well1.jpg?fit=576%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1891,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/greatwall-drilling-company-to-drill-the-badada-prospect-in-kenya-block-2b\/","url_meta":{"origin":2408,"position":1},"title":"Greatwall Drilling Company to drill the Badada Prospect in Kenya Block-2B","author":"Samuel Kamau Mbote","date":"October 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Taipan Resources Inc. the operator in block 2B has announced the signing of a Letter of Intent with the Greatwall Drilling Company of China to contract the GW-190 land rig for the planned Badada-1 well (where Tower Resources has 15% working interest) onshore Block-2B, Kenya. 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