The London-listed explorer, together with partners Cairn Energy and state hydrocarbons agency SMHPM, now intend to carry out seabed coring studies to derisk the four additional prospects that have been identified from earlier 3D seismic shot over the acreage.

Last year, the trio carried out technical work on the 3500 square kilometres of proprietary 3D seismic data that included specialised processing, iterative interpretation and spectral decomposition analysis.

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