Tullow makes another Kenyan hit

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Good sign: Tullow has made a second discovery in Kenya

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Josh Lewis

 26 November 2012 08:24 GMT

UK company Tullow Oil has made an oil discovery with its onshore Twiga South-1 exploration well on Block 13T in Kenya.

The well was drilled to a total depth of 2350 metres and encountered 30 metres of net oil pay, with an API greater than 30 degrees, in three sandstone reservoir zones.

It also intersected a tight fractured rock section below 2272 metres which Tullow said had hydrocarbon shows over a gross 796 metre interval, adding movable oil was also successfully sampled from this section.

According to Tullow, the tight fractured rock section is a new play type for the region but would need further evaluation to fully understand its extent and any productive…

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