Kosmos Energy in its operational update announced that its Teranga-1 exploration well offshore Senegal has made a significant gas discovery.

The well was drilled to a total depth of 4,485 meters and came across 102 feet of net gas pay in good quality reservoir.

Well results have shown that a productive inboard gas fairway stretches about 200 km from the Marsouin-1 well (Kosmos’ second Mauritanian discovery) via the Greater Tortue area on the maritime boundary to the Teranga-1 well in Senegal.

Kosmos has spud five successful exploration and appraisal wells with a 100% success rate in the fairway. As a result, the company has discovered a gross Pmean resource of about 25 Tcf and expects the fairway to cover over 50 Tcf of resource potential.

“Our continuing exploration success demonstrates we have opened a super-major scale basin offshore Mauritania and Senegal with world-class resource potential. Given the scale and quality of the gas resource discovered along the inboard trend, our focus is to move this resource through to development. Our forward exploration plan is to mature the two independent tests with oil potential in northern Mauritania and in the outboard of Mauritania and Senegal for drilling in 2017,” Andrew G. Inglis, Chairman and CEO of Kosmos Energy told Oil and Gas Journal.

Teranga-1 is situated in the Cayar Offshore Profond block about 65km northwest of Dakar, Senegal in almost 1,800 meters of water.

Kosmos has a 60% interest in the Teranga-1 well, alongside Timis Corporation Limited with 30% and Société des Pétroles du Sénégal (Petrosen) with 10% interest.

Anita Fatunji