Mauritania: Tullow plans seismic, oil search

Keen to get back to exploration after a period of cost-cutting, Tullow Oil plans to acquire 3D seismic in June 2017 over the C3 and C10 blocks, where it has identified low-cost, high-impact prospects from existing seismic. “Just to sharpen up the image of some of them we’ll be acquiring some seismic this year for a drilling campaign in 2018-19,” exploration director Angus McCoss told a conference call to discuss the company’s 2016 results. “We are very purposefully not looking for deep-water gas, we are looking for oil, near the shelf edge.”