Kenya: Wells planned for onshore blocks 2B, 12B

Operator Taipan Resources has signed a letter of intent with China’s Greatwall Drilling Company to contract the GW-190 land rig for the high-impact Badada-1 well on Block 2B. The Anza Basin well is expected to spud between mid-December and mid-January and take around 70 days to drill. Premier Oil farmed into the onshore block in October 2013, taking 55%. “The Badada-1 well is a potential play-opener,” said partner Tower Resources. “It will test the first of several prospects and leads in Block 2B that are potentially analogous to prospects in the Lokichar Basin where Tullow Oil and Africa Oil have enjoyed multiple oil discoveries in the Tertiary Rift sequence.