Petrobras strike oil in Angola

Angola Oil

Brazilian oil giant Petrobras has announced it has made two new oil discoveries off the coast of Angola. The discoveries were made in in Block 15/06, of which Petrobras hold a five percent stake.

Eni the Italian multinational oil and gas company with a presence in 70 countries world-wide is the majority stake holder at 35 percent and is the sites operator.

The wells Nzanza-1 and Cinguvu-1 are located around 350 km northwest of Luanda, in a water depth of some 1.400 meters.

As reported by OilVoice, during production test, the Nzanza-1 well produced oil with a density of 18 API gravity at rates above 1,600 barrels per day (bpd). At Cinguvu-1, the production test reached a maximum flow of 6,400 bpd of oil with a density of 23 API gravity.

The other partners are Sonangol P&P (15 percent), SSI Fifteen Limited (20 percent), Total (15 percent), Falcon Oil Holding Angola AS (5 percent), and Statoil Angola Block 15/06 AS (5 percent).

Further exploratory wells will be drilled in Block 15/06 later this year.

Leaving a cleaner legacy

Elsewhere, US oil firm Anadarko has announced the first deepwater discovery off the coast of Mozambique. Anadarko Petroleum Corporation announces the Windjammer exploration well in the frontier Rovuma Basin offshore Mozambique has reached an intermediate casing point and encountered more than 480 net feet of natural gas pay in high quality reservoir sands, with a gross column of more than 1,200 feet.

"The intermediate results of the Windjammer well are very positive for the partnership and the people of Mozambique," said Bob Daniels, Anadarko Sr. Vice President, Worldwide Exploration.

Much has been written about the negative impact that foreign oil companies have in Africa when extracting the commodity, one can only hope that enough has now happened for all future discoveries to start having less and less of an impact on Africa's people and environment. It's time for foreign oil giants to leave behind a cleaner legacy when extracting black gold.

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Daniel Jones

Daniel is a Politics and Philosophy graduate from Cardiff University where he also worked as a section editor on the award winning student newspaper. After university he joined an IT support company where he was a B2B online writer. He loves anything to do with sport and joined GDS in July 2009.

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