Gabon: Pre-salt gas find for Shell

Shell has announced a pre-salt gas discovery with the Leopard-1 well on block BCD10. Shell said the well encountered a substantial gas column with around 200 metres of net gas pay in a pre-salt reservoir. Leopard-1 is located around 145km off the Gabonese coast, west of Gamba. It was drilled in water 2,110 metres deep to a total vertical depth of 5,063 metres. Shell and its partner CNOOC are planning to undertake an appraisal programme to further determine the resource volumes.