lock 33 contains just six well penetrations, which have yielded two Oligo-Miocene oil discoveries, and is highly underexplored in comparison to the neighboring acreage.
The countdown has begun for Searcher Geodata to begin its seismic survey for oil and gas reserves off South Africa’s West Coast in January. Cape Town paddlers took to the sea to protest at the arrival of the seismic survey ship.
The presence of nearby hydrocarbon accumulations in older reservoirs, coupled with the evidence of oil charge to Upper Miocene units, provides great encouragement that the reprocessed ANG Block 16 dataset can lead to further exploration success.