Peru28 Jan 2020 18:03
Tumbes Basin, Peru
Block Z-38
During 2008 Karoon acquired a 20% equity interest in Block Z-38 in the Tumbes Basin offshore Peru. This was subsequently increased to 75% before a successful farm-out of 35% to Tullow Peru Limited in January 2018, leaving Karoon with a 40% interest.
Preparations are underway for drilling the high-impact Marina-1 during 2020, with a gross prospective best estimate resource of 256MMbbls (net 102 MMbbls to Karoon)*. Details can be found on our Peru operations website https://operacioneskaroon.com.pe.
Block Z-38 lies 10 kilometres offshore from the coast of northern Peru, 56 kilometres west of the city of Tumbes and 39 kilometres west of Caleta Cruz. The block is in water depths ranging from 300 metres along its eastern boundary to over 3,000 metres in the west and covers an area of 4,875 square kilometres.
Block Z-38 provides 549 million barrels (MMbbl) of oil prospective resource potential* into Karoon’s exploration portfolio in an under-explored, highly prospective part of the Tumbes Basin. This pull-apart basin is similar in style to the prolific San Joaquin Basin of Southern California and exhibits a variety of play types. Work done by Karoon including 3D seismic, sea floor drop cores and AVO analysis supports the presence of an active petroleum system with oil from the same source rocks as seen in the adjacent Talara Basin where over 1.7 billion barrels of oil have been produced to date.
Karoon’s acreage is strategically located across the basin axis and adjacent to the Talara Basin onshore fields.