Tullow Oil plc has announced that its Wawa-1 exploration well in the Deepwater Tano licence offshore Ghana has intersected oil and gas-condensate in a Turonian turbidite channel system.
In a statement, the company said it had encountered 20 metres of gas-condensate pay and 13 metres of oil pay in turbidite sands.
It said samples showed the oil to be good quality "between 38 and 44 degrees API."
The well was drilled 10 kilometres north of the Enyenra-3A well, testing the previously undrilled, updip portion of the licence, it added.
The company is suspending the well for possible future use in appraisal and development operations.
