Exploration company Tullow Oil has said that one of its wells in Kenya has encountered high quality oil reservoirs.
Tullow said its Etom-2 well in Block 13T in Northern Kenya has encountered 102 metres of net oil pay in two columns.
The company's exploration director Angus McCoss said that discovering "this thick interval of high quality oil reservoirs" further underpins the company's development options and resource base.
Mr McCoss said the result follows careful evaluation of 3D seismic data which was shot after the Etom-1 well and demonstrates how the company has improved its understanding of the South Lokichar Basin.
"This result also suggests significant potential in this underexplored part of the block as it is the most northerly well we have drilled in South Lokichar and is located close to the axis of the basin away from the basin-bounding fault," he added.
