Congo B: Eni oil and gas find on Marine XII



Issue 260 - 09 Aug 2013 | 1 minute read

Eni has announced that an appraisal of the Nene Marine-1 well has established reserves of 600m barrels of oil and 700bcf of gas. The structure, which lies 17km offshore, has considerable additional upside that will be evaluated with further delineation wells, Eni said. The discovery well was drilled in 24 metres of water to a total depth of 3,013 metres and encountered a significant wet gas and light oil accumulation in a Lower Cretaceous pre-salt clastic sequence.

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