Statoil, Tanzania has made another high impact natural gas discovery offshore Tanzania. The discovery is Statoil and coventurer Exxon Mobil’s sixth discovery and the fifth high impact discovery in Block 2 offshore Tanzania.
A report from Statoil confirmed the discovery of an additional two to three trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas in place in the Piri-1 well brings the total of in-place volumes up to approximately 20 tcf in Block 2. Since 2012 they have had a 100% success rate in Tanzania and the area has become a core exploration area in a very short period of time.
The new gas discovery was made in the same Lower Cretaceous sandstones as the gas discovery in the Zafarani-1 well drilled in 2012. The Piri-1 discovery is the venture’s sixth discovery in Block 2.
It was preceded by the four successful high-impact gas discoveries, Zafarani-1, Lavani-1, Tangawizi-1 and Mronge-1, and a sixth discovery in the Lavani-2 well beneath the Lavani-1 discovery. Piri-1 was drilled by the drillship Discoverer Americas. The well location is 2 kilometers southwest of the Lavani-1 well at 2,360-metre water depth.
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