Block H next to Save block.7 Oct 2020 11:05
Maybe of no interest to Save but asset sales gathering pace and comes on the back this past week of private equity Carlyle group picking up 33,000 bopd producing assets in Colombia from Occidental for $700m (+$150m additional) as they are a distressed seller and also trying to sell their Ghana assets (Jubilee/Ten) which was reported that Save was in the running for some while back.
From AEI today -
'Despite getting off to a such a good start, things soon went from bad to worse for the junior oil firm Delonex Energy. Under Rahul Dhir, who left in July to take over the helm of Tullow Oil, it gradually wound down.
Founded in 2012 and funded by US fund Warburg Pincus and the World Bank's International Finance Corporation, Delonex Energy is now a shadow of its former self. Both its founders have since jumped ship: David Ginger for Warburg offshoot Neptune Energy in 2018, and Rahul Dhir for Tullow Oil in early July. As a result, Delonex Energy never managed to build a portfolio of assets to keep afloat.
Leaving Chad
According to our sources, in September Delonex commissioned Scotiabank to sell all its permits in Chad. Alonso Maggo, the project manager and technical director for investment bank Moncef Attia, is out looking for buyers for Delonex's shares in blocks H, DOC and DOD and Largeau.
Scotiabank is marketing block H, for which a drilling campaign is already scheduled, with a theoretical capacity of around 85,000 bpd.
Warburg has good reason to be displeased
The American investment fund Warburg Pincus lost everything with Delonex. Since the company opened its doors, it has swallowed lots of cash without producing a single drop of crude. It is not certain that the sale of the Chadian assets will work out and significantly reduce the mountains of lost money. '
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Block H 3-10-19 Upstream - 'Privately-owned explorer Delonex Energy has made four oil discoveries in Chad’s frontier Termit basin and will begin drilling appraisal wells next year to also target a deeper, higher potential play.
“In the last year, we have drilled six exploration wells and have made four discoveries — these are exciting times,” said Lorna Blaisse, senior exploration geologist at Delonex, at the Africa E&P conference in London this week.
Delonex has identified three oil plays in the block — two Cretaceous and one Tertiary.
The Tertiary reservoirs are fluvial, deltaic and lacustrine in nature, said Blaisse, with porosities over 25% and permeabilities up to six Darcies permeabilities “in very quartz-rich sands with minimal clays”.
Delonex — headed by chief executive Rahul Dhir — has found mature Cretaceous source rocks right across the block and at many levels and with a total oil content of up to 20%.
The real intrigue for us,” said Blaisse, “is porosity preservation in over-pressured Cretaceous shales, a play which has the potential to open up huge new reserves in the basin and a broader variety of deeper traps.'