Mixed results in Ghana probes but Jubilee starts up new well

By MARK HILLIER London

 13 December 2012 23:59 GMT

Tullow has had mixed results with its latest exploration well off Ghana, but its production performance in the West African nation has been boosted by the start-up of a new well on the Jubilee field.

Tullow acknowledged that the Okure-1 exploration well on the Deepwater Tano licence met only “non-reservoir quality formations” in the main objective levels below the TEN cluster, although it did discover a gross 17-metre interval of “low net to gross oil bearing Turonian age sandstones within an overlying secondary objective.”

Light oil with a 40-degree API gravity was recovered from this interval, Tullow said, adding that log and pressure data indicated this oil accumulation is not connected to other finds in the licence area. The probe was described as unsuccessful by analysts at…

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