NAMIBIA: ReconAfrica Provides Kavango West 1X Operational Update

Preparations for downhole production testing are advancing with equipment, trucks and crews arriving on site.   Permits required to begin production testing have been received from the regulatory authorities for both ReconAfrica and its service suppliers. The cement bond log test is scheduled to begin at the end of this week and downhole perforation operations and flow testing are scheduled to begin before the end of May, following the arrival of final service items on site.

Production testing could take up to 10 days in a single zone, and the total production test is estimated to take up to 60 days. Production casing has been set to total depth of the well which will allow the KW1X wellbore to be utilized as future producer upon successful test results.

ReconAfrica continues to take the steps required to advance appraisal drilling locations on the Kavango discovery following the completion of the production test at KW1X.   Preparations for the appraisal well are proceeding with specific permitting applications and site preparations underway for the Kavango West 2A (KW2A) appraisal well.