Galp Confirms Quality Light Oil Discovery Offshore Namibia

Namibia’s offshore has yielded quality discovery as the African country continues to be an exploration hotspot for international companies. Portugal’s Galp has just successfully drilled and logged the Mopane-1A appraisal well in block PEL83, encountering light oil and gas-condensate in high-quality reservoir-bearing sands. The findings of this third appraisal well are “once again indicating good porosities, high permeabilities, and high pressures, as well as low oil viscosity characteristics with minimum CO2 and no H2S concentrations,”…