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    Oil & Gas Technology: Kosmos Tastes Gas at Mauritania Offshore Wildcat

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Kosmos Energy has announced today that it has hit gas through its Tortue-1 explorattion wildcat in Mauritania

by: Erica Mills

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Oil & Gas Technology: Kosmos Tastes Gas at Mauritania Offshore Wildcat

Kosmos Energy has announced that the Tortue-1 exploration well, drilled to test the Tortue West prospect, which forms part of the Greater Tortue Complex, in Block C-8 offshore Mauritania has made a significant, play-opening gas discovery.

Based on the preliminary analysis of drilling results and intermediate logging to a depth of 4,630 metres, Tortue-1 has intersected 107 metres (351 feet) of net hydrocarbon pay. A single gas pool was encountered in the primary Lower Cenomanian objective. 

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