Aptian

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Azinam: Rig secured to drill Prospect S in PEL 71, offshore Namibia

Market Watch 04 Jun 2018

The well has been strategically designed to test multiple zones including Aptian, Albian and Cenomanian-Turonian targets and is expected to spud in Q4 2018. Prospect S has a gross mean prospective resource of 459mmbls and is one of five dip-closed structural traps in close proximity to each other in an Upper Cretaceous turbidite clastic fairway, with a combined total of 1,758mmbls of gross mean prospective resources ... www.azinam.com ... or....

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Renewal of PEL 37 Offshore Namibia and Signature of Rig Contract

Market Watch 08 Mar 2018

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Mar 08, 2018 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - March 7, 2018) - Africa Energy Corp ... The fans are in close vertical proximity to a mature oil-prone source rock of Aptian age that was recently proven by the nearby Murombe-1 and Wingat-1 wells, the latter of which recovered light oil ... About Africa Energy Corp. Africa Energy Corp ... Forward-Looking Information....

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A 94-Million-Year-Old Warning About the Oceanâs Future

The Atlantic 12 Jan 2018

The ocean is losing its oxygen. Last week, in a sweeping analysis in the journal Science, scientists put it starkly ... The culprits are familiar. global warming and pollution ... Meanwhile, agricultural runoff and sewage drives suffocating algae blooms ... * * * ... Almost 30 million years before, the similarly dramatic Early Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event throttled ancient ocean life, as did a number of lesser events peppered throughout the Cretaceous....

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PEL 37 Joint Venture Plans to Drill Offshore Namibia in Q3-2018

Market Watch 27 Nov 2017

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Nov 27, 2017 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Nov. 27, 2017) - Africa Energy Corp ... Africa Energy recently acquired one-third of the shares in a subsidiary of Pancontinental Oil & Gas N.L ... The fans directly overlie a mature oil-prone source rock of Aptian age that was recently proven by the nearby Murombe-1 and Wingat-1 wells, the latter of which recovered light oil....

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A cavalcade of giant dinosaurs is unearthed

The Guardian 31 May 2017

Recent discoveries are adding greatly to our understanding of the giant sauropod dinosaurs. Dinosaurs. Lost Worlds Revisited. A cavalcade of giant dinosaurs is unearthed. Recent discoveries are adding greatly to our understanding of the giant sauropod dinosaurs. @Dave_Hone ... Yet surprisingly our understanding of these great animals is often limited ... Twitter ... Twitter ... SP., A New Sauropod From The Early Cretaceous (Aptian) of North America ... Bio ... ....

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Deepwater turbidites offshore Namibia shown to provide high-quality reservoir sands

Offshore Magazine 12 Apr 2017

Exploration wells operated by HRT during 2012 and 2013 offshore Namibia have significantly reduced the uncertainty on distribution of oil mature Aptian source risk in the Walvis basin Wingat-1 and Murombe-1. Both wells encountered thick Aptian source rock above the Breakup Unconformity ... ....

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Cairn Energy's (CRNCY) CEO Simon Thomson on Q4 2016 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Seeking Alpha 08 Mar 2017

Cairn Energy Plc ADR (OTCPK.CRNCY) Q4 2016 Earnings Conference Call March 8, 2017 4.00 AM ET. Executives. Simon Thomson - Chief Executive Officer. James Smith - Chief Financial Officer ... Analysts ... Nathan Piper - RBC ... And when we now map that, it's no wonder it's probably outside of closure, certainly a long, long way down deep and our new depth conversion shows at the crest of these Aptian carbonates is where we are drilling it now at VR-1....

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Cairn: Senegal appraisal well result

Oilfield Technology 07 Mar 2017

choke. Two main flows of 24 hours each were performed; the first at ~2500 bpd on a 40/64 in ... choke ... VR-1 has two objectives; an Aptian exploration target and an appraisal objective in the SNE field. The well will target the Vega-Regulus exploration prospect in the Aptian Carbonates underlying the SNE field which has potential gross mean consolidated prospective resource of more than 100 million bbls ... Read the article online at ... ....

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