Oil & Gas Technology: Shell strikes gas off Gabon
Shell has announced a frontier exploration discovery offshore Gabon, West Africa
The well Leopard-1 encountered a substantial gas column with around 200-metres net gas pay in a pre-salt reservoir.
Leopard-1 is located around 145-kilometres off the Gabonese coast, west of Gamba. It was drilled in water 2,110-metres deep to a total vertical depth of 5,063-metres. Shell and partners are planning to undertake an appraisal programme to further determine the resource volumes. MORE