Drilled by Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Metro 1, the Jodari-1 well is located about 39 kilometres offshore southern Tanzania and in a water depth of 1150 metres.
Early evaluation of the well, in block 1 offshore the south of the African nation, revealed gross recoverable reserves of between 2.5 trillion and 4.4 trillion cubic feet of gas, BG said.
The find was well above the well target of 2.2