(Ecofin Agency) - Two weeks after it stopped the TLP-103 oil well drilling due to bad geological conditions, Anglo African Oil & Gas (AAOG) has chosen a new drilling site baptized TLP-103C.

According to the initial calendar, this new site located 100 meters from the former had been chosen beforehand. The drilling platform will be brought there next week and the drilling should start during the week of October 8, 2018.

Once it became obvious the TLP-103 should be abandoned, AAOG ordered a study following which the contractor issued recommendations to minimize further problems that could be encountered in the shallow section of that TLP-103C well.

“Following the unwelcome need to pull out of TLP-103 and re-spud, the operations team, the rig contractor  and our external consultants have worked tirelessly to get the drilling programme back on track as soon as practicable and to take steps to ensure that there is no repetition of the problem”, David Sefton, executive chairman of AAOG, commented.

The study further confirmed that the geological problems encountered could not be identified in advance.

Olivier de Souza