Interesting read from the africa oil earning call transcript11 Sep 2021 16:08
We've got three exploration wells coming up by the end of this year, at least spudding by the end of this year. South Africa 2B in Namibia the Venus prospect and also, don't forget about Guyana, a co-Atlantic and our investment there. We've got another well just about to spud by the end of this month in the Canje Block in Sapote, which looks quite compelling as well. So, again, we don't -- these are all fully funded. We don't have to put any more money into this, but we basically get a free ride on all of these exploration wells. And they are a huge impact. Venus in particular is probably the biggest volume exploration well this year or probably even this decade. So we're quite encouraged to staying on that.
So if we go to the next slide, I think that shows the Venus prospect. Sorry, that shows the Venus prospect and it's huge. It's 600 square kilometers, four times the size of Marlim field. So I think that one could be a big impact project and Block 2B, we've got a very low risk, kind of more like Kenya like basin. We now have contracted the rig for that, and the rig is on its way, should spud in December. And I think that prospect also looks like it could have a big impact on the African energy share price.