Namibia - Farm out15 May 2021 17:02
In January 2021 the Company announced its updated Prospective Resources on its Namibian licence PEL0094. The inclusion of seven new leads, in addition to the Marula and Welwitschia Deep prospects, resulted in a threefold increase to 2,284 million barrels of Best Estimate (P50) Prospective Resources of oil net to Global, confirming the Company's view that the acreage is highly prospective.
Following this, Global then commenced a farm-out process, which is currently underway.
The Company has completed its work commitments under the current licence sub-period, which expires in September 2021. The commitment for the next sub-period is to shoot a 2,000 square km 3D seismic survey.
Namibia has seen multiple farm-ins or acquisitions completed since 2017 by companies such as Qatar Petroleum, Total, ONGC, Kosmos, and most notably ExxonMobil. Moreover, there are reported to be several highly prospective exploration wells planned in the coming months, notably Total's Venus-1 well, and Shell's well in PEL0039, both in Namibia's Orange Basin.