Ruvuma
Licence
Surface
Licence Ownership
Ruvuma
12,153km2
Ndovu (Aminex) Operator 56.25%
>90% Onshore
Tullow Oil 25%
Solo Oil Plc 18.75%
- Ruvuma is one of the last under-explored major river basins in Africa, with onshore and offshore prospects present in both Tanzania to the north and Mozambique to the south.
- Aminex and partners hold the rights to virtually all the onshore Tanzanian acreage in the basin.
- Exxon-Mobil, BG, Statoil and Ophir hold contiguous, adjoining offshore acreage. On the Mozambique side, Anadarko and partners drilled the Windjammer deep water gas discovery in early 2010 and have an ongoing drilling programme.
- Likonde-1 was drilled by Aminex and partners in early 2010 and TD’d at 3,647 metres.
- Likonde-1 intersected two sandstone intervals of over 250 metres (820 feet) combined thickness with high gas readings and physical evidence of residual oil. Drilling had to be terminated in the deepest objectives due to high gas influx.
- Seismic reprocessing has been undertaken to aid evaluation of nearby leads.
- Drilling of Ntorya-1 well to the south of the Likonde location planned for Q4 2011