{"id":7156,"date":"2018-08-15T07:55:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T07:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=7156"},"modified":"2018-08-15T07:55:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T07:55:48","slug":"africa-oil-relinquishes-kenyas-block-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/africa-oil-relinquishes-kenyas-block-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Oil Relinquishes Kenya\u2019s Block 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Block 9 operator Africa Oil has\u00a0submitted a notice to the Government of\u00a0Kenya\u00a0relinquishing its interest in the block leaving Delonex as the only partner after acquiring Marathon Oil\u2019s equity.<\/p>\n

The two JV partners had until June 2018 to\u00a0reevaluate<\/a>\u00a0and reprocess seismic and other data the Bogal-1 well which was plugged and abandoned with then operator CNOOC citing extensive fracture network proven by the abundant fluid losses during drilling and the Formation Micro Imaging (FMI) log.<\/p>\n

According to Africa Oil the exit will result in a\u00a0$44.7 million\u00a0impairment of previously capitalized intangible exploration assets with the company\u2019s operating expenses increasing to $44.8 million as compared to $1.9 million in the same period last year.<\/p>\n

Earlier a source had told OilNews Kenya that it was unlikely<\/a> to carry out any further drilling in the license until there is better understanding of the block with the block having huge contrasts that would necessitate further 3D seismic giving the likelihood of a relinquishment.<\/p>\n

The block which has recorded two gas discoveries at the Sala-1 well and Bogal-1 well (Kenya\u2019s deepest drilled onshore well) hit a dry well in the Sala 2<\/a> appraisal well designed to test the updip extent of this main reservoir sand with the well particularly focusing on gas tested at low rates at the lower interval of Sala-1.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the company received two quarterly payments of $18.75 million as part of the $75.0 million\u00a0advance development carry in relation to the farm down to Total in Blocks 10BB and 13T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Block 9 operator Africa Oil has\u00a0submitted a notice to the Government of\u00a0Kenya\u00a0relinquishing its interest in the block leaving Delonex as the only partner after acquiring Marathon Oil\u2019s equity. The two … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":6939,"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":[70,288,6854,580,1499,2135,2225,2227],"class_list":["post-7156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-africa-oil","tag-block-9","tag-bogal-1","tag-delonex-energy","tag-marathon-oil","tag-relinquishment","tag-sala-2","tag-sala-1","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Block-9-wells.jpg?fit=1072%2C687&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-1Rq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6645,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/africa-oil-reevaluate-bogal-1-discovery-reprocess-2d-seismic-block-9\/","url_meta":{"origin":7156,"position":0},"title":"Africa Oil To Reevaluate Bogal-1 Discovery, Reprocess 2D Seismic In Block 9","author":"","date":"December 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Kenya\u2019s Block 9 operator Africa Oil has until June 2018 to undertake engineering and well design for reevaluation and testing of Bogal-1 well over eight years after the well was plugged and abandoned by then operator CNOOC citing extensive fracture network proven by the abundant fluid losses during drilling and\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\/2014\/08\/block-9-neqwe.jpg?fit=536%2C598&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/block-9-neqwe.jpg?fit=536%2C598&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/block-9-neqwe.jpg?fit=536%2C598&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1613,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/kenyas-sala-2-appraisal-well-set-to-spud-in-q3\/","url_meta":{"origin":7156,"position":1},"title":"Kenya\u2019s Sala-2 appraisal well set to spud in Q3","author":"Samuel Kamau Mbote","date":"August 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Marathon oil has announced that the Sala-2 appraisal well in block 9 will spud in the third quarter of 2014. 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