Oil and gas company BW Energy has announced a substantial oil discovery with good reservoir quality on the Bourdon prospect in the Dussafu license, offshore Gabon.
Drilling data confirms approximately 34m of play in an overall hydrocarbon column of 45m in the Gamba formation, making the discovery the largest made on the Dussafu license to date.
“The Bourdon appraisal well again confirms the significant resource potential of the Dussafu licence, which holds multiple additional prospects,” stated Carl K. Arnet, CEO, BW Energy. “We will now carefully review the drilling results, but initial data indicates the potential for establishing a new development cluster with a production facility following the MaBoMo blueprint. We are evaluating a second sidetrack to further appraise the discovery”.
The discovery was made using the Norve jack-up rig which BW Energy leveraged to drill 4,135m on the prospect.
