Tanzania: Offshore progress for BG, Ophir

Operator BG has made a big new gas discovery with the Kamba-1 well in Block 4, raising the prospect of a third train for the planned liquefied natural gas development. The well was drilled by the Deepsea Metro I drillship in a water depth of 1,379 metres to a total depth of 3,969 metres, targeting the Cretaceous-aged Kamba prospect and the Paleocene-aged Fulusi prospect, a northern extension of the earlier Pweza discovery. The well encountered an 18-metre gas column in the Fulusi prospect and, after sidetracking to test the Kamba prospect, the Kamba-1ST well established another gas column of 140 metres.