{"id":7613,"date":"2019-03-13T07:20:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T07:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=7613"},"modified":"2019-03-13T07:21:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T07:21:29","slug":"lamus-pate-2-well-to-be-plugged-abandoned-despite-gas-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/lamus-pate-2-well-to-be-plugged-abandoned-despite-gas-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamu\u2019s Pate 2 Well To be Plugged &#038; Abandoned Despite Gas Find"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lamu blocks L4\n&amp; L13 operator Zarara Oil &amp; Gas Limited through its mother company Midway\nResources International has announced that Pate 2 well will be plugged and\nabandoned despite intersecting 23 metres of net pay gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to\nMidway Resources the well which drilled on Pate Island and targeted the Pate\nsub-basin in the onshore Lamu Basin reached a well reached a total depth of\n4,307 meters and penetrated the primary Lower Tertiary Kipini objective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLike the\nPate-1 well, Pate-2 has been operationally challenging. However, this is an\nexciting result for the company making the first hydrocarbon discovery in the\nonshore Lamu Basin,\u201d Peter Worthington, Chief Executive Officer of MRI,\ncommented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The well which\nhas taken <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2J8PfeH\">eleven months<\/a> to complete took\nconsiderably longer than had been planned, partly because of difficult drilling\nconditions comprising very hard shales in the caprock interval. At the last\nstage of drilling higher pressures had to be carefully managed to maintain a\nsafe operation confirming the presence of relatively higher pressure natural\ngas in several reservoir intervals with in the Kipini Formation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the\nfind Midway reports that a clear gas water contact was not yet been identified\nduring drilling or logging and thus (although the well has not been tested as\nthe intersected sands, being relatively thin and fine grained are now believed\nto be located in the distal part of the Kipini delta) the well is considered\nunlikely to be commercial on a standalone basis and will be plugged and\nabandoned, although it would be capable of re-entry if desired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This said the company says since\nthe well results successfully confirmed a working petroleum system in the Pate\nsub-basin of the Lamu Basin any further appraisal activity with respect to\nPate-2 well will now focus further exploration activity within a Kipini play\nfairway which Zarara believes exists within Blocks L4 and L13. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhilst not commercial at this\nlocation, it has already enabled us to map the extent of the Kipini play\nfairway across Zarara\u2019s acreage in L4 &amp; L13 and better target thicker sands\nin another structure. It also provides encouragement to explore for further\ndrilling targets at reduced risk and a better understanding of the play\nfairway,\u201d Worthington adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lamu blocks L4 &amp; L13 operator Zarara Oil &amp; Gas Limited through its mother company Midway Resources International has announced that Pate 2 well will be plugged and abandoned despite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/lamus-pate-2-well-to-be-plugged-abandoned-despite-gas-find\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":7615,"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":[5,11],"tags":[5716,955,3506,3512],"class_list":["post-7613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-discoveries","category-top-news","tag-discovery","tag-gas","tag-midway-resources-international","tag-pate-island","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SK-604-1.png?fit=294%2C401&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-1YN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5348,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/why-zararas-pate-2-result-could-overshadow-tullows-early-oil-pilot-scheme\/","url_meta":{"origin":7613,"position":0},"title":"Why Zarara\u2019s Pate-2 result could Overshadow Tullow\u2019s Early Oil Pilot Scheme","author":"","date":"October 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The drilling of Pate-2 well in Lamu County\u2019s Pate Island is set to commence in Q1 2017 same time as the eagerly awaited early oil pilot scheme is set to commence with just over a dozen trucks ferrying crude oil via road from the lokichar oil fields to the Kenya\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Top News&quot;","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\/2016\/10\/Pate-1-location.png?fit=639%2C632&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Pate-1-location.png?fit=639%2C632&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Pate-1-location.png?fit=639%2C632&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5646,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/zararas-pate-2-well-on-schedule-to-spud-in-april-2017\/","url_meta":{"origin":7613,"position":1},"title":"Zarara\u2019s Pate 2 well on schedule to spud in April 2017","author":"","date":"February 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Plans to drill the Pate 2 well in Kenya\u2019s Lamu basin\u2019s block L4 are on course with well designing by Norwell Engineering currently ongoing according to Zarara Oil and Gas country manager Peter Nduru. 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