Local affiliate Esso Exploration Angola last week confirmed details of successful tests from the Kissanje prospect in block 15, first reported as a find by Upstream last November. The discovery well, at a water depth of 1011 metres, encountered three oil bearing reservoir intervals, two of which flowed at a combined test rate of around 10,000 barrels per day .
Exxon eyeing up African hat-trick
EXXON has piped in a duet of oil finds offshore Angola on the Kissanje and Marimba fields and is likely to embark on a deep-water development project if its current Hungo prospect wildcat brings home the trio.
21 March 1998 0:00 GMT
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21 March 1998 0:00 GMT