RE: Bad Trip Pony23 Oct 2025 11:00
Hi CH,
Although majority of us are focusing purely on Cameroon, with it being the most developed field and Cameroon having a plethora of oil, our walvin basin lisence is also a very exciting prospct.
The Orange and Walvis Basins both have organic rich marine shales that generate oil, and sand layers deposited by underwater flows called turbidites, which can store large amounts of oil. They also contain fault-bounded grabens (blocks of crust that have dropped down between faults) creating natural pockets where oil can accumulate. Both the Orange and Walvis Basin also show volcanic intrusions, which can heat the surrounding rocks and help mature oil. The Orange Basin has proven commercial oil, including Graff (700 million barrels), Venus (5.1 billion barrels) and Jonker (300 million barrels). The licenses for these fields are held by Shell for Graff and Jonker, and TotalEnergies holdings venus's. With big dogs being located near our licence it not only helps with proof of commerical oil near the field but would also help with lower costs with infrastructure and rigs already being within the vicinity of our licence.
to me, with Walvis, having similar rock types, sediment patterns, and structures it is defo considered an exciting, high potential, frontier area for exploration espically considering we already have a farmout agreement in place with prime regarding our lisence.
Cameroon will the catalyst that creates massive growth here but success in namibia too could firmly cement TRP as a mid tier independent oil company.