Sasol gears up for new wildcat drill campaign

By IAIN ESAU London

 07 June 2012 22:59 GMT

SASOL Petroleum International, the upstream subsidiary of Johannesburg-listed Sasol, is gearing up to drill a wildcat off Mozambique in August.

The company has secured a jackup with a view to spudding a probe on the Mupeji prospect in Block M-10. The Mupeji-1 well is expected to target a structure that could hold up to 1 trillion cubic feet of gas.

Upstream understands that KCA Deutag’s Ben Avon jackup has been contracted to drill this well, after which it may mobilise to Tanzania to work for Orca Exploration.

If the well is successful, it will provide future feedstock for Sasol‘s Mozambique-South Africa pipeline, currently underpinned by reserves at the Temane and Pande fields. The…

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