Sierra Leone: Oil shows for Lukoil


Russia’s Lukoil Overseas has found an “oil-saturated reservoir” with its first exploration well offshore Sierra Leone. The well on the Savannah structure on SL-5-11 was drilled to more than 4,700 metres in water depths of more than 2,000 metres using the semisubmersible Ocean Rig Eirik Raude (AE 262/14). Lukoil said oil-saturated reservoirs were identified and oil samples were taken from the Turonian sands.