Tullow halts drilling of Kenya well

Drilling halt: Kenya well ceased after hitting formation

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By News wires

 28 June 2012 16:56 GMT

Tullow Oil has halted the drilling of its well in northwestern Kenya after hitting a geological formation and may soon start assessing the commercial viability of the well where it had announced the country's first oil discovery.

Tullow's country manager in Kenya, Martin Mbogo, said the company had hit an unexpected geological formation about 400 metres short of its original projected target depth of 2,700 metres in the Ngamia-1 well, Reuters reported.

If it can't go further, then Tullow will start appraising the contents of the well and will move the drilling rig west to spud its second Kenyan well this year, the Africa-focused British firm said on Thursday according to the news wire.

Mbogo said it was still too soon to discuss whether the well, in the country's Turkana…

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