TotalEnergies has moved to the next well in its campaign in Namibia after discovering more oil resources in the Orange Basin.
Namibia has become an exploration hotspot over the past few years following significant discoveries including TotalEnergies’ Venus-1 well and Shell’s Graff-1, La Rona-1 and Jonker-1.
Since then, many oil and gas companies have started to engage in drilling activity.
TotalEnergies has completed the drilling at Tamboti-1X and is beginning spudding (the very first drilling operation for a newly discovered reservoir) at the Marula-1X exploration in Block 2913B (PEL 56), offshore Namibia.
TotalEnergies is the operator of Block 2913B in PEL 56, which covers approximately 8,215km² offshore Namibia, and owns 50.5% of the operation.
The joint venture partners are QatarEnergy (30%), Africa Oil’s Impact Oil and Gas (9.5%) and Namibia’s NAMCOR (10%).
Impact Oil & Gas announced the completion of the Tamboti-1X exploration well and the spudding of Marula-1X.
Africa Oil president and CEO Roger Tucker said: “The Venus project is progressing well, and we are very encouraged by the operator’s public statements on the commerciality and the quality of this field.”
He added that there is "also an exciting exploration programme with Marula-1X operations under way and the plan to start drilling [the] Olympe-1X well by the end of 2025."
The drilling operations at Marula-1X are being carried out by a semi-submersible rig owned by Northern Ocean (NOL) and managed by Odfjell Drilling.
In other news, TotalEnergies recently dismissed tariff fears by unveiling plans to expand the company’s investment in the US liquefied natural gas market over the next decade.
