{"id":639,"date":"2014-03-03T19:11:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T19:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilnewskenya.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2015-09-09T11:25:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T11:25:18","slug":"statoil-announces-successful-test-in-block-2-offshore-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/statoil-announces-successful-test-in-block-2-offshore-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Statoil announces successful test in Block 2 offshore Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"

Statoil\u00a0and co-venturer\u00a0ExxonMobil\u00a0<\/em>have announced the results from their first drill stem test in the\u00a0Tanzania Block 2\u00a0offshore discoveries. The data acquired is important to reduce technical uncertainties in a possible future Tanzania offshore and LNG development.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Zafarani-2\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>operation tested two separate intervals and flowed at a maximum of 66 million standard cubic feet of gas per day, constrained by equipment, and confirmed good reservoir quality and connectivity. The drill stem test operation was performed through a re-entry in the\u00a0Zafarani-2 well, in 2,400 metres water depth and approx. 80 kms off the coast of southern Tanzania.<\/p>\n

‘The ongoing appraisal programme is crucial to firm up the design and development basis for bringing gas to shore and a first phase onshore LNG project in Tanzania,’ says \u00d8ystein Michelsen, Statoil\u2019s Tanzania country manager. ‘We are now working constructively with our co-venturer\u00a0ExxonMobil,\u00a0Blocks 1, 3 & 4\u00a0and the\u00a0Tanzanian authorities\u00a0to progress the plans for a\u00a0joint LNG plant development.’<\/p>\n

The production well rate potentials are estimated to be higher than the equipment constrained rates obtained during the test. TheZafarani-2\u00a0operation will be followed by the\u00a0appraisal well Zafarani-3, which concludes the planned appraisal in the Zafarani reservoir, the cornerstone for a field development in\u00a0Tanzania Block 2.<\/p>\n

The Zafarani-2 well test announcement follows the\u00a0Mronge-1 discovery\u00a0made in December 2013, which was the fifth discovery in Block 2 and brought the natural gas in place volumes up to 17-20 trillion cubic feet (Tcf)*. The Mronge-1 was preceded by three successful high-impact gas discoveries during the first drilling phase with\u00a0Tangawizi-1,\u00a0Zafarani-1\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Lavani-1, and a deeper discovery in a separate reservoir in\u00a0Lavani-2<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Statoil\u00a0operates the licence on\u00a0Block 2<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>on behalf of\u00a0Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC)\u00a0and has a 65% working interest, with\u00a0ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Tanzania\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>holding the remaining 35%. Statoil has been in Tanzania since 2007, when it was awarded the operatorship for Block 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Statoil\u00a0and co-venturer\u00a0ExxonMobil\u00a0have announced the results from their first drill stem test in the\u00a0Tanzania Block 2\u00a0offshore discoveries. 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