Dry Kenya well for Taipan as Tullow, Africa Oil scale back

Taipan Resources has announced that the Badada-1 well drilled by its Lion Petroleum subsidiary on Block 2B in the Anza Basin found only gas shows and will be plugged and abandoned. Badada had been touted as a potential play opener, but had also been the subject of court action by local people claiming they would be displaced by the well and had not been properly informed about the company’s operations. A temporary injunction halting drilling was lifted in December, allowing work to continue at the well site. A further hearing in the case is scheduled for 16 March.