Rovuma Partners Find More Gas

Anandrako and partners have made a gas discovery at Tembo-1 well in Rovuma basin onshore Mozambique, a partner in the concession said Monday

Wentworth Resources, East Africa-focused oil & gas company, announced that drilling operations of the Tembo-1 well have now completed and a natural gas discovery has been made in Cretaceous aged sands. The well was drilled to a total depth of 4,553 meters. 

Petrophysical analysis of the Cretaceous section indicates 11 meters of natural gas net pay, Wentworth said. 

“The Onshore Rovuma Partners do not plan any further evaluation of the Tembo well at this time but will assess all the data recovered from this well to determine the potential commerciality of this discovery,” Wentworth added.

The Tembo-1 well has been plugged and abandoned and the drilling rig is now being mobilized to the Kifaru-1 well location. It is expected that the Kifaru-1 well, which is approximately 10 kilometers south of Wentworth's Mnazi Bay Concession in Tanzania, will spud in the first quarter of 2015.  This well is targeting Miocene sands, similar to the reservoirs in the Mnazi Bay and Msimbati gas fields.

Partners in the Rovuma onshore concession are Anadarko, as operator, (35.70%); Wentworth (11.59%); Maurel & Prom (27.71%); PTTEP (10%); and Mozambique's state-owned ENH (15%).