{"id":5454,"date":"2016-12-08T09:31:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T09:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=5454"},"modified":"2017-01-24T13:05:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T13:05:30","slug":"tullow-oil-erut-well-in-kenyas-block-13t-to-spud-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/tullow-oil-erut-well-in-kenyas-block-13t-to-spud-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Tullow Oil Erut well in Kenya\u2019s Block 13T to spud next week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tullow Oil is set to start the drilling of its northern most well in the south Lokichar basin \u2018Erut\u2019 to date on December 16th<\/sup> according to the country\u2019s exploration manager Kevin Christopherson who was speaking at the just concluded SPE\/AAPG\u00a0Africa<\/span> Energy and Technology Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Erut\"<\/a>\"Erut<\/a><\/p>\n

The well to the north east of the l\u00a0has the potential to derisk the northern prospects and will target the auwerwer and lokone at less than 1,600 meters.<\/p>\n

The Etom 2 discovery<\/a> encountered high net pay increasing prospectivity of greater Etom complex and opens up northern play fairway<\/p>\n

Following the Erut well the company will head to drill the Etete well set to spud in January to the southern side of the Etom complex and has Auwerwer and Lokone targets at less than 1,800 meters.<\/p>\n

\"Etete\"<\/a>\"Etete<\/a><\/p>\n

Appraisal of the Ngamia and Amosing Updips fields in Blocks 13T and 10BB respectively is expected to start in February and March.<\/p>\n

Tullow Oil also plans to evaluate the Lopara & Ekosowan North Prospects that will test large stratigraphic trap between Amosing & Ekosowan. The Lopara & Ekosowan prospects have potential to add significant resources & extend Amosing trend.<\/p>\n

Tullow Oil has discovered resources of over 760 MM barrels with an upside of 1.6 BN barrels in the South Lokichar Basin in Kenya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tullow Oil is set to start the drilling of its northern most well in the south Lokichar basin \u2018Erut\u2019 to date on December 16th according to the country\u2019s exploration manager … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2262,"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":[5573,5574,138,720,4718,4717,5626,4716,1252,5627,1732,2378,5572],"class_list":["post-5454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-aapg","tag-africa-energy-and-technology-conference","tag-amosing","tag-ekosowan","tag-erut","tag-etete","tag-etom-2-discovery","tag-etom-complex","tag-kenya","tag-lopara","tag-ngamia","tag-south-lokichar-basin","tag-spe","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/land-drill-rig.jpg?fit=1200%2C798&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-1pY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5501,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/africa-oil-announces-commencement-of-drilling-on-erut-1-pwel-in-kenya\/","url_meta":{"origin":5454,"position":0},"title":"Africa Oil Announces Commencement of Drilling on Erut-1 well in Kenya","author":"","date":"December 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Tullow Oil joint venture partner Africa Oil has\u00a0announced the resumption of drilling on Block 13T in Kenya as earlier expected and reported by OilNews Kenya. 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