Angola: Vaalco spuds post-salt well

Houston-based Vaalco Energy announced on 2 March it had spudded the post-salt Kindele-1 well, the company’s first on Block 5. The well will test a fault block adjacent to Conoco’s 1988 Mubafo discovery, which tested oil from the oil from the Mucanzo sand section within the Pinda formations. The well is being drilled by the Transocean Celtic Sea semi-submersible rig and is expected to take six weeks. Kindele-1 will be drilled to 1,800 metres to evaluate the Mucanzo sand section, then deepened to 2,250 metres for geological and geophysical correlation.