Chad: Two discoveries for United Hydrocarbon International

Canada’s United Hydrocarbon International Corporation has announced two successful wells on its licence area in the Doba Basin as its 2014 drilling campaign gets under way. The Belanga North-1 exploration well was drilled to a total depth of 1,392 metres and encountered three oil-bearing sand intervals; two in the targeted Upper Cretaceous sands with a combined thickness of 16.5 metres, and a previously untested five-metre sand interval in a shallower horizon. The well flowed at 680 b/d on test, and the oil recovered was similar to that in the nearby producing Doba fields.