The Gye Nyame-1 wildcat was drilled to a depth of 3349 metres subsurface in 519 metres of water, finding substantial gas condensate sands with good reservoir characteristics, just a few kilometres from the Italian player’s earlier Sankofa-1A and 2 discoveries.
Joint development of Gye Nyame — which requires further delineation and appraisal — and Sankofa reserves would place gas-gathering infrastructure just 35 kilometres from Tullow Oil’s Jubilee field on the Deepwater Tano block, where the Ghana government already plans a $1 billion gas-monetisation development.
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