Panoro Energy announces significant oil discovery offshore Gabon

Norway's Panoro Energy has said that a significant new oil discovery has been made at the Bourdon prospect, located on the Dussafu Marin Permit offshore Gabon in which Panoro holds a 17.5 per cent participating interest.

The well was drilled to a total depth of 4,135 metres with the Borr Norve jack-up rig. Evaluation of logging and pressure data confirmed that approximately 34 metres of net oil pay in an overall column of 45 metres had been encountered in the prolific Gamba reservoir formation, the largest hydrocarbon column discovered to date at Dussafu.

The discovery is located approximately 15 kilometres west of the BW Adolo FPSO and 7.5 kilometres southeast of the MaBoMo production facility.

"Once the final data from the well and an appraisal side-track, which may be drilled, is available we will work to delineate the extent of this exciting new discovery and provide an update on estimated resources," commented John Hamilton, CEO of Panoro.

"What is apparent even at this early stage is that we have potentially established the foundation for a new development cluster on the block, which holds multiple additional prospects and leads.

"Bourdon is the final operation in the current Dussafu drilling campaign, which has now resulted in four significant oil discoveries and eight new production wells across the Hibiscus/Ruche hub which, in addition to the six pre-existing wells at the producing Tortue field, has increased total gross production on the block to around the 40,000 bopd level.”