Shell has made a barnstorming offshore oil discovery in Namibia’s prolific Orange basin that appears to be far greater than its two earlier oil finds in in all probability the world’s prime exploration play.
QatarEnergy and state-owned Namcor, Shell’s companions, at present confirmed Upstream’s latest unique that the Jonker-1x probe had hit mild oil in Block 2913A, however didn’t go into element.
Nonetheless, knowledgeable sources informed Upstream that the Jonker discovery is jumbo-sized, totally justifying Shell’s choice to concentrate on a brand new geological play within the block versus going again to drilling within the space of final 12 months’s Graff-1x and La Rona-1x discoveries.