{"id":4758,"date":"2016-06-15T10:34:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T10:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=4758"},"modified":"2017-01-25T07:34:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T07:34:07","slug":"cepsa-erhc-disappointed-at-kenyas-block-11a-tarach-1-well-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/cepsa-erhc-disappointed-at-kenyas-block-11a-tarach-1-well-source\/","title":{"rendered":"CEPSA, ERHC Disappointed at Kenya\u2019s Block 11A Tarach-1 well – Source"},"content":{"rendered":"

OilNews Kenya has learnt that the search for oil and gas at Tarach-1 in Kenya\u2019s Block 11A has not been successful and works are ongoing to plug the well according to a reliable source.<\/p>\n

The drilling that commenced<\/a> on 14th<\/sup> April 2016 using the SMP 106 rig in the north western block in Kenya targeted to drill from a 20-inch surface casing through intermediate casings down to 2,442 meters and set a seven-inch liner down to a total depth (TD) of 3,000 meters.<\/p>\n

The Tarach-1 prospect\u2019s mean estimate of oil prospective unrisked resources was 66 million barrels.<\/p>\n

OilNews Kenya cannot however verify whether any hydrocarbons were encountered during the drilling.<\/p>\n

Following this new revelation it is unclear whether a planned second exploratory well , the Egole-1 a four-way rollover closure onto a Northwest \u2013 Southeast trending fault plain with mean prospective resources of 101 million barrels of oil will continue.<\/p>\n

Egole-1<\/a> had earlier been planned to follow shortly thereafter although as Oilnews Kenya previously learnt a success at Tarach-1 would lead to a second well.<\/p>\n

The news if true casts a dark shadow on upstream activity in Kenya with no further wells expected till late 2016 when Tullow Oil and Africa Oil will resume<\/a> activity in Blocks 10BB and 13T.<\/p>\n

CEPSA has 55% share while\u00a0ERHC, and the State-run National Oil Corporation of Kenya (NOCK) have\u00a035% and 10% respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OilNews Kenya has learnt that the search for oil and gas at Tarach-1 in Kenya\u2019s Block 11A has not been successful and works are ongoing to plug the well according … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":4579,"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":[261,431,494,3129,796,1690,1755,2214,2328,3128],"class_list":["post-4758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-block-11a","tag-cepsa","tag-compania-espanola-de-petroleos","tag-egole-1","tag-erhc","tag-national-oil-corporation-of-kenya","tag-nock","tag-s-a-u","tag-smp-106","tag-tarach-1","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tarach-1-well-rig.png?fit=551%2C412&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-1eK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5809,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/tarach-1-well-now-classified-as-dry-cepsa\/","url_meta":{"origin":4758,"position":0},"title":"Tarach 1 Well Now classified as Dry – CEPSA","author":"","date":"March 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Tarach 1 well drilled in April 2016 was dry as earlier reported by OilNews Kenya according to the latest SEC filing by joint venture partner ERHC. \u201cOperator analysis of the results if the Tarach-1 well shows that it did not encounter any reservoirs. 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