Tanzania: Papa-1 Finds Lots More Gas In Ruvuma

The BG/Ophir consortium topped up Tits gas reserves off Tanzania via the Papa 1, in Block 3, in the Ruvuma
Basin. The work is part of the Blocks 1, 3 and 4 drilling programme,operated by BG.
The Deepsea  Metro 1 (UDW Drillship) completed operations at the Mzia-1 discovery (Block 1) on 21 May and the vessel then moved to the Papa-1 location in Block 3. Papa-1 was spud on May 29 and is estimated to take 65 days to complete. Papa-1 targeted the Upper Cretaceous intra-slope channel play within the Rufiji delta. “The
Papa-1 prospect has an unrisked mean estimated recoverable resource of 3.1 Tcf (517 MMboe)”, Ophir said in a release.
Deepsea Metro 1 was expected to proceed to work for American operator, Apache on a single well in Kenya on acreage adjacent to Ophir’s Blocks L9 (60%) and L15 (100%), before returning to continue operations with the Ophir-BG Joint Venture