Tullow hits oil at Ntomme off Ghana

Oil strike: partners hit light oil at Deepwater Tano Block

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Luke Johnson

 18 January 2012 23:51 GMT

Tullow Oil has hit “significant quantities” of light oil in an appraisal well in the Deepwater Tano Block off Ghana.

The Ntomme-2A appraisal well – located about 4 kilometres south of the Tweneboa-3 sidetrack, which discovered the Ntomme field – hit 45 meters of high-quality stacked reservoir sandstones, including 39 metres of 35 degrees API gravity net oil pay, partner Kosmos Energy said in a statement on Wednesday.

Paul Dailly, Senior vice-president of exploration for Kosmos called the find a “great result” because Ntomme was originally identified as a gas-condensate discovery.

“However, this well confirms the majority of resources to be oil,” he said in a statement.

Ntomme-2A was designed to test the potential…

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