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GNPC announces discovery of more
oil
Accra, March 24, Ghanadot/GNA – The Ghana National Petroleum
Corporation (GNPC), announced on Tuesday that the Tweneboa-1 oil
well offshore the Tano Basin, which has a significant discovery
of oil and gas, has encountered more oil after the well was
deepened.
A statement signed by Mr M. O. Boateng, Managing Director of
GNPC, said the Tweneboa-1 well was deepened from 3,593 metres to
3,939 metres during which it encountered 4 metres of
highly-pressured oil bearing interval.
It said the Corporation and its partners would conduct the
relevant evaluations to determine the size of the discovery.
The statement said an appraisal programme would soon be
submitted to the Minister for Energy in accordance with the
provisions of the Petroleum Agreement.
GNPC’s partners are Tullow Oil, Kosmos Energy and Anadarko
Petroleum.
The statement said the results of wireline logs, pressure
measurements and sampling showed that the encountered oil of 26
degrees API was independent of the shallower accumulation
announced on March 8, 2009.
“The oil from this accumulation appears to be heavier than the
one that was encountered earlier on, meaning that they are
different pools,” GNPC said.
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