Uganda: Heritage spuds Giraffe

Operator Heritage Oil has spudded the Giraffe well in the Butiaba region of Block 1, following the Warthog and Buffalo discoveries on the same block. Giraffe-1 is located 5km south-west of the successful Buffalo-1 well, which encountered a gross hydrocarbon-bearing interval of some 123 metres with net hydrocarbon pay of 43 metres. Buffalo-1 is the fifth successful test of the Victoria Nile delta play fairway within the Lake Albert Rift Basin and was drilled 16km north-east of the Warthog-1 and Kasamene-1 discoveries.