Walvis Basin Namibia. 2018 Drilling10 Jan 2018 17:28
OVL buys 30% stake in Namibian oil block
ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), on Monday said it had acquired 30% interest in an oil block, off Namibia, from UK’s Tullow Oil. OVL did not disclose the deal value.
Tullow Oil held 65% interest in the Namibian Petroleum Exploration License (PEL) 37, covering three blocks.
Pancontinental Namibia (Pty) Ltd. holds 30% interest, while the remaining 5% is with Paragon Oil and Gas. OVL said it had “signed definitive binding agreements with Tullow Namibia Ltd. (Tullow), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tullow Oil plc, on June 28, 2017 for acquiring 30% participating interest in Namibia PEL 37 for Blocks 2112A, 2012B and 2113B out of Tullow’s existing participating interest of 65% in the license“.
Tullow will continue to remain an operator after the acquisition, which is subject to satisfaction of customary conditions precedents including approvals of Namibian regulatory authorities and joint venture partners, the company said in a statement.
PEL 37 covers three adjacent blocks over 17,000 sq km in the central Walvis Basin offshore Namibia. To date, four large prospects and three large leads have been mapped in detail.