This looks very good19 Dec 2025 08:49
GEO holds a 78% participating interest in Petroleum Exploration Licence (PEL) 0094 (Block 2011A) in the Walvis Basin, offshore NW Namibia. This covers 5,798 square kilometres in water depths ranging from 450 metres to 1550 metres. State oil company NAMCOR has a 17% carried interest and private company Aloe Investments Two Hundred and Two (PTY) Ltd has a 5% carried interest. Geo also previously held PEL 0029 from 2010 until its expiry in December 2020.
The entire Walvis Basin is significantly under-explored although the wells drilled to date have encountered multiple source rocks and reservoir intervals and, in a number of cases, hydrocarbon shows. Only eight wells have been drilled to date – by Norsk Hydro, Sasol, Ranger, HRT, Repsol and, most recently in 2018, by Tullow and Chariot. Of the wells drilled in the Walvis Basin, Geo regards the HRT operated Wingat-1 well as being the most significant in that liquid hydrocarbons were recovered from the Aptian interval, thus establishing for the first time that a source rock has charged oil into a trap in the Walvis Basin.
In 2017 GEO completed an infill 2D seismic program of 840km across the adjacent PEL0029 licence with particular focus on the primary prospect Gemsbok. The subsequent interpretation confirmed three prospective, very large, fault and dip-closed structures: Gemsbok, Lion (which can be sub-divided into Lion North and Lion South) and Dik-Dik.
GEO was encouraged enough to apply for Block 2011A to the east where similar plays are seen in the Welwitschia Deep structure, as well as other plays, which have been demonstrated elsewhere in the Walvis Basin. A Petroleum Agreement for this acreage was signed with the Namibian Government and our partners in September 2018 and the PEL0094 licence was subsequently issued. GEO has mapped 3D and 2D seismic across the basin and across this licence and confirmed that the source rock is present and is able to charge oil into the significant portfolio of prospects and leads.
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