company:kosmos energy

  • Kosmos Energy annonce une découverte importante de gaz au large des cotes du Sénégal
    http://atlasinfo.info/fr/index.php/component/content/article/690-2016-05-10-09-04-28.html

    Kosmos Energy (NYSE : KOS) a annoncé lundi dernier que son puits d’exploration Teranga-1, situé dans la zone offshore du Sénégal, a réalisé une découverte significative de gaz. Situé dans le Bloc Cayar Offshore Profond, à environ 65 kilomètres au Nord-Ouest de Dakar, dans presque 1 800 mètres d’eau, le puits Teranga-1
    a été foré jusqu’à une profondeur totale de 4 485 mètres. Le puits a rencontré 31 mètres (102 pieds) de zone productrice nette gazéifère dans un réservoir de haute qualité, dans le cible du Cénomanien inférieur.

    Les résultats du puits confirment qu’une zone utile gazéifère prolifique « in-board » s’étend approximativement 200 kilomètres, du puits Marsouin-1 en Mauritanie, jusqu’à la zone de Grand Tortue sur la frontière maritime, au puits Teranga-1 au Sénégal. Kosmos a maintenant foré cinq puits fructueux consécutifs d’exploration et d’évaluation dans cette zone utile, avec un taux de succès de 100 pour cent.
    Au cours de ces cinq forages, au Sénégal et en Mauritanie, la société a découvert une ressource brute d’environ 25 billions de pieds cubes, valeur moyenne espérée (« P Mean »), et estime que la zone utile pourrait contenir plus de 50 billions de pieds cubes de ressources potentielles.

    • La première annonce de janvier 2016 et la carte.

      Senegal : Kosmos Energy announces significant gas discovery offshore Senegal
      http://www.energy-pedia.com/news/senegal/kosmos-energy-announces-significant-gas-discovery-offshore-senegal-166

      Kosmos Energy has announced that its Guembeul-1 exploration well, located in the northern part of the St. Louis Offshore Profond license area in Senegal, has made a significant gas discovery.

      Located approx. 5 kms south of the basin-opening Tortue-1 gas discovery (renamed Ahmeyim) in approx. 2,700 meters of water, Guembeul-1 was drilled to a total depth of 5,245 meters. The well encountered 101 meters (331 feet) of net gas pay in two excellent quality reservoirs, including 56 meters (184 feet) in the Lower Cenomanian and 45 meters (148 feet) in the underlying Albian, with no water encountered. Importantly, Guembeul-1 has demonstrated reservoir continuity as well as static pressure communication with the Tortue-1 well in the Lower Cenomanian, suggesting a single, large gas accumulation. Moreover, the well has significantly de-risked adjacent prospectivity, including proving the existence of excellent quality reservoirs in the Albian. Furthermore, it has provided additional calibration of our seismic attribute exploration tool, confirming its reservoir and fluid predicative capability for these primary exploration targets.

      Based on the integration of the Guembeul-1 well results, the Pmean gross resource estimate for the Tortue West structure has increased to 11 Tcf from 8 Tcf as a result of greater reservoir (net to gross) confidence in the Cenomanian, as well as the inclusion of volumes in the Albian. Accordingly, the Pmean gross resource estimate for the Greater Tortue Complex has increased to 17 Tcf from 14 Tcf.

  • Une compagnie américaine aurait découvert du pétrole au Sahara occidental... Un casus belli de plus avec le Polisario et l’Algérie

    Western Sahara well results due in the first quarter of 2015
    4 November 2014 7:09 GMT | By Wil Crisp News | MEED http://www.meed.com

    Drilling set to start in this month amid legitimacy concerns

    US oil explorer Kosmos Energy is expecting results for its first well drilled in offshore Western Sahara in the first quarter of 2015, according to Brian Maxted, the company’s Chief Exploration Officer.
    Speaking on a conference call on 3 November following the company’s financial results, Maxted called the Cap Boudjour basin a world-class exploration opportunity with the potential to be a “corporate game changer”.

    Kosmos is preparing to start drilling at the Cap Boudjour area this month amid concerns over whether the drilling in the disputed territory is legal under international law.

    A UN legal opinion issued in 2002, which states that exploitation of resources in the region would be illegal if an operator went ahead “in disregard of the interests and wishes of the people of Western Sahara”.

    Ahead of Kosmos’ drilling campaign, the Saharawi people, who live in the western part of the Sahara desert, have accused the oil company of failing to carry out proper consultations with local groups including the Polisario Front, an Algeria-backed indigenous Saharawi group that claims Morocco is illegally occupying Western Sahara.

    The Polisario Front has been recognised by the UN as the representative of the people of Western Sahara and has been outlawed by the Moroccan government.

    “Kosmos did not deal with Polisario and that is a big, big problem because the majority of the Saharawis in the occupied territories know the Polisario as the only representative of the Saharwais,” says Lakhal Mohamed Salem, a member of the executive board of the Collective of Saharawi Human Rights Defenders.

    In October, Saharawi human rights organisations sent an open letter to Kosmos Energy accusing the oil company of ignoring them and choosing instead to speak to individuals and groups appointed by the Moroccan government.

    Kosmos has signalled that it wants to stay out of Western Sahara’s dispute over self-determination as much as possible.