Tullow well hits oil and gas

Tullow Oil’s Ebony-1 exploration well in the Shallow Water Tano licence has intersected two hydrocarbon bearing intervalsin Late Cretaceous turbidite sands. Ebony-1 spudded on 22 October and reached a total depth of 2,640 metres. The well lies in the south-west part of the Shallow Water Tano block in 86 metres of water and is the second commitment well in thelicence. The first well, 1N-3X, was plugged and abandoned last year. Logging and sampling operations confirmed a four-metre oil bearing interval at 2,053 metres and a two metre high-pressure gas-condensate interval at 2,570 metres.