Mr Camara thanks for the posting on the oil prospect
in Gambia.I think the Government should look into
environmental impact assessment.The offshore oil can
have serious implication to human, fish and other
marine species.We are all aware that the present trend
of business as usual is what is creating climate
change thus undermining our survival and the future of
the next generation on Earth.
--- Momodou Camara <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> West Oil ties up Gambia options
>
> 08.05.1999
>
>
> PERTH-based explorer West Oil was set to sign a deal
> this week to firm up
> options on deep-water acreage off Gambia and tighten
> its grip on similar
> tracts held jointly by Senegal and Guinea-Bissau,
> writes Barry Morgan.
>
>
> West's partner, the West Australian geophysical
> consultant Ikoda, has
> finalised studies of structural leads in the Joint
> Development Zone and
> sources said the deep-water prospects off Gambia
> might also tempt the
> Australians into a production-sharing agreement with
> the government in
> Banjul. West Oil and Western Geophysical will make
> submissions on the
> Senegal-Bissau play once the countries have ratified
> block demarcations.
> The Gambian option may emerge sooner since outline
> terms were pre-
> negotiated, a company source said. The original
> agreement specifically
> foresaw a licence application for more than half of
> the 4110 square-kilometre
> area studied but Banjul later cut down the area.
> West now hopes that
> Gambia's Commissioner for Exploration, Kabar Jawara,
> will allow it to licence
> the area outlined in the original deal. Deep-water
> data was compiled by Ikoda
> for the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Employment,
> including mesozoic-
> cenozoic sedimentary infill and tying in old data
> and work done on the
> Jammah-1 well drilled 20 years ago. Viable reservoir
> horizons have been
> affirmed on shelf-edge carbonate features while
> intra-slope Senonian
> prospectivity is significant in water depths less
> than 1000 metres , said
> Ikoda. The report highlighted a potential shelf-edge
> structural closure dubbed
> G9 and higher risk stratigraphic plays along the
> paleoslope . Satellite radar
> revealed anomalies that form a distinctive alignment
> in the deep water and
> may represent natural hydrocarbon seepages . There
> is potential for
> significant quantities of oil and gas.
>
>
> -------------------------
>
> West mulling Gambia play
>
>
> 01.05.1999
>
>
> PERTH-based West Oil is presently studying leads
> thrown up offshore
> Gambia following data reprocessing over the patch
> covered by a technical co-
> operation agreement signed nine months ago.
>
>
> Ministry officials are hopeful sufficient incentives
> exist for West, in
> partnership with compatriot geophysical consultant
> Ikoda, to convert the
> accord into a fully fledged production sharing
> contract. We have enough
> encouragement to justify moving to the next stage of
> exploration activity, said
> a spokesman for UK-based equity partner Fusion
> Investments, but we have
> no formal forward programme. West is also mulling
> options on acreage
> surrounding the Ghana National Petroleum
> Corporation's North Tano field.
> Gambian commissioner for exploration Kabar Jawara is
> expected in Accra
> next week to promote his country's offshore assets
> at a conference on west
> African oil prospects.
>
>
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