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<\/a>The area is located in the Afar region of Ethiopia in the north-eastern part of the country and covers about 42 thousand sq. km has already seen Airborne FTG & Magnetic Survey which was carried out in February 2015.<\/p>\nThe acquisition falls in the timelines set by the company which in its October presentation said 2D Seismic Data Acquisition is planned to start in Q4 2015<\/p>\n
The PPSA secures a 7-year exploration and a 25-year production period. GPB Global Resources is the operator of the project with 100 percent equity. The Ministry of Mines of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia can back-in up to 15 percent during the development stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Russian explorer GPB Global Resources has said it has began acquiring 2D seismic at the Gewane-El Wiha license area where it signed a Petroleum Production Sharing Agreement (PPSA) in July … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3928,"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":true,"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":[26,3701,3700,809,3698,3697,3699,2206],"class_list":["post-3926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-2d-seismic","tag-afar-region","tag-airborne-ftg-magnetic-survey","tag-ethiopia","tag-gewane-el-wiha-license","tag-gpb-global-resources","tag-ministry-of-mines-of-the-federal-democratic-republic-of-ethiopia","tag-russia","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GPB-Global-Resources.png?fit=451%2C259&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-11k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2357,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/2d-seismic-acquisition-to-commence-in-ethiopias-rift-basin-area-block\/","url_meta":{"origin":3926,"position":0},"title":"2D seismic acquisition to commence in Ethiopia\u2019s Rift Basin Area Block","author":"Samuel Kamau Mbote","date":"January 23, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"[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 at the end of January at the Rift Basin Area Block in Ethiopia. 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<\/a>The area is located in the Afar region of Ethiopia in the north-eastern part of the country and covers about 42 thousand sq. km has already seen Airborne FTG & Magnetic Survey which was carried out in February 2015.<\/p>\n