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Greatwall Drilling Company Ltd has been contracted to drill Pate 2 well in Zarara Oil and Gas operated Block L4 scheduled to spud later in the year according to sources.<\/p>\n

The Chinese driller beat a team of other companies including Dubai based Sakson Drilling & Oil Services earlier involved in drilling at the Amosing and Twiga appraisal wells operated by Tullow Oil. The company has since withdrawn from the region and has its rigs in other countries in Africa including Algeria.<\/p>\n

Pate-2<\/a> is expected to be drilled to a target depth of 4,500 metres and is expected to take up to 120 days to drill, test and complete.<\/p>\n

Other contract winners include Norwegian company North Sea Well Engineering Limited\u00a0(Norwell Engineering) as the design and planning company that will ensure everything goes as desired. Among its first chores will be the deciding of the road route as well identifying and considering ports and jetties that will be utilized in the process.Both Norwell Engineering and Greatwall drilling were involved in the drilling of Badada 1 well<\/a> located in the Anza Basin, Block 2B.<\/p>\n

Medivac-Kenya will provide medical services to the workers in camps while corporate security company and risk management contractor Salama Fikira will be in charge of security.<\/p>\n

According to country manager Peter Nduru mobilization is expected to commence in June with drilling expected after the company receives environmental compliance certificate from the national environmental management agency (NEMA). The ESIA was carried out by ESF consultants a regional Environmental Management firm with regional offices in Nairobi Kenya.<\/p>\n

According to Midway Resources If testing shows commercial quantities of natural gas (<30 Bcf), the well will be completed as a producer with the view to production through an early production system as quickly as practicable.<\/p>\n

Once Pate 2 is complete the company also plans to drill Pate-3 from the Pate-2 pad, using directional drilling to a vertical depth of 4,500 metres with the total measured depth will be approximately 5,000 metres. The required drilling time to approximately 120 days to drill, test and complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greatwall Drilling Company Ltd has been contracted to drill Pate 2 well in Zarara Oil and Gas operated Block L4 scheduled to spud later in the year according to sources. … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":5349,"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":[138,3507,4664,4581,6166,1252,6164,4437,6165,1715,1779,5814,3510,5412,6167,6163,2571,2592,2765],"class_list":["post-5993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-amosing","tag-block-l4","tag-esf-consultants","tag-esia","tag-greatwall-drilling-company-ltd","tag-kenya","tag-medivac","tag-midway-resources","tag-national-environmental-management-agency","tag-nema","tag-norwell-engineering","tag-pate-3","tag-pate-2","tag-peter-nduru","tag-sakson-drilling-oil-services","tag-salama-fikira","tag-tullow-oil","tag-twiga","tag-zarara-oil-and-gas","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Pate-2-3.png?fit=528%2C477&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-1yF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7078,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/pate-2-3-wells-face-delays-sakson-kenyan-agent-head-court\/","url_meta":{"origin":5993,"position":0},"title":"Exclusive: Pate 2 & 3 Wells Could Face Further Delays As Sakson & Kenyan Agent Head to Court","author":"","date":"June 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The continuation of Pate 2 and 3 wells in Lamu\u2019s block L4 is in doubt after the rig owner Sakson Drilling & Oil Services and its Kenyan agent Gas & Oil Exploration Consultants Limited (GASOILEX) fell out over unpaid commissions as part of the mobilization fee and as an agent\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Top News"","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\/2018\/04\/IMG-20180426-WA0030.jpg?fit=774%2C1032&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20180426-WA0030.jpg?fit=774%2C1032&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20180426-WA0030.jpg?fit=774%2C1032&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG-20180426-WA0030.jpg?fit=774%2C1032&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6954,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/drilling-lamus-pate-island-commence-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":5993,"position":1},"title":"Drilling in Lamu\u2019s Pate Island to Commence This Week","author":"","date":"April 17, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Zarara Oil and Gas is set to spud the Pate 2 well in Lamu\u2019s Block 4 this weekend using a Drilling Services \u00a0top hole drilling rig of 750hp to a depth of 300 meters OilNews Kenya has learnt. 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