Tullow well finds minor gas shows in Ethiopia

LONDON -- Tullow Oil has announced that the Shimela-1 well encountered water bearing reservoirs. Shimela-1 in the South Omo Block, onshore Ethiopia, was drilled to test a prospect in a north-western sub-basin of the vast Chew Bahir basin. The frontier wildcat well encountered lacustrine and volcanic rocks including almost 100 m of net sandstone reservoir within siltstones and claystones. Trace thermogenic gas shows were recorded at 1,900 m.

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