Historic first-ever oil column discovered offshore East Africa.

V partner Pancontinental Oil and Gas has advised that, after lengthy analysis, it has been verified that the recently completed BG-Group-operated Sunbird-1 well off the southern Kenyan coast has intersected an oil column – the first-ever oil discovered off the East African coast. The gross oil column is assessed to be 14m thick beneath a gross gas column of 29.6m in a reefal limestone reservoir in the Sunbird Miocene Pinnacle Reef in area L10A. The corresponding net values are 9.2m for the oil zone and 28.3 m for the gas zone. The net values are calculated for the reservoir using cut-offs of 10% porosity (Phi) and 50% shale volume (Vsh). Oil and gas samples have been recovered and analysed using sophisticated geochemical techniques. The Sunbird Reef is an ancient Miocene pinnacle reef buried beneath approximately 900m of younger sediment.

Sunbird-1 well, completed in March in area L10A, intersected a gross 29.6m gas column overlying a gross 14m oil column in the Sunbird Reef.

Discovery considered to be a play opener – the buried Sunbird Reef holds the first-ever oil column discovered in the Lamu Basin offshore Kenya.

Major implications for regional exploration – proprietary geochemical data puts the L10A JV in a leading position to find commercial oil.

@hisah either they found out became jealous and lied to us hopping for our future turmoil waje kunyonya for "firiii" or God "closed" there eyes wasitusumbue.