Tullow, which is really the industry leader in terms of Kenyan exploration programs and discoveries, has farmed into blocks 10A, 10BA, 10BB, 12A, 12B & 13T, which surround ERHC’s Block 11A. TLW says its acreage covers the Turkana Rift Basin, which has similar characteristics to the Lake Albert Rift Basin (near Uganda Block EA-1), and includes a south-east extension of the geologically older Sudan rift basin trend. The Sudan rift also extends through ERHC’s Block 11A. Effectively this places ERHC’s Kenyan Block 11A in between Tullow’s existing Kenyan and Ugandan exploration plays, bearing in mind TLW’s Uganda exploration program is approximately 300 miles further west.
To further place Block 11A in context, the 2.95 million acres is approximately 11,937 km2 (4,609 mi2), roughly five times larger than the Wattenberg Basin in Colorado, which is 2,530 km2 (978 mi2). Why do we point out this relatively simple mathematical comparison? Large acreage numbers cited with African explorations blocks often create the impression that exploration and developing the blocks is an insurmountable hurdle for smaller companies. Although generally larger than the Wattenberg Field, exploration blocks in Kenya, if prospective, are broadly similar in size to many other basins. The main difference between any of the large onshore African exploration blocks is that relatively few exploration wells have been drilled when considered in the context of established producing fields like the Wattenberg, which has has over 21,000 wellbores drilled since the 1970s. The opportunities in Block 11A and others are unique because the plays are nascent as the industry has really only just begun to discover the resource potential in Kenya."
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