Jubilee partners strike at Odum-1

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Jonathan Davis

 25 February 2008 07:05 GMT

US players Anadarko Petroleum and Kosmos Energy have struck oil in the Odum-1 exploration well, drilled close to the partners’ huge Jubilee find on the West Cape Three Points Block off Ghana.

Kosmos said in a statement that it had struck 22 metres of net oil-bearing pay in a gross interval of 60 metres after the well was drilled to a depth of 3386 metres in the Tano basin.

The company said the oil, of 29 degrees API, was confirmed by drilling, wireline logging and fluid samples.

The well lies about 13 kilometres east of the Mahogany-1 discovery on the Jubilee field. It is Anadarko’s and Kosmos’s second exploration well on the West Cape Three Points Block.

The new find is thought to indicate a significant…

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