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Express Petroleum and Gas

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Express Petroleum and Gas Company
11 Festival Road, former Babatunde Jose Street
Victoria Island, Lagos
Nigeria

Tel: 234 1 261 5115

Description

Express Petroleum and Gas Company is a private company based in Nigeria. The company have a stake in block OML 108.

Block OML 108
OML 108 (formerly OPL 74) was awarded to Express Petroleum and Gas Company in December 1990. Express assigned 40% interest to Conoco Energy Nigeria Limited as technical advisor. Conoco relinquished its 40% stake in the block in 2004 and transferred it to Shebah Exploration & Production Company Limited.

OML 108 covers an area of 750km sq in water depth of 88ft(30m) in the western edge of the Niger Delta in shallow water offshore Nigeria, six miles south west of Chevron’s Meren field. The block is composed of oil producing Ukpokiti field, Kunza discovery and deeper pool prospects in the southern portion of the block. The Ukpokiti field comprising of 5 (five) oil wells and 2 injector wells, namely UKP 4R, 6R, 1R (oil wells in the red reservoir), 4B, 1B (oil wells in the blue reservoir) and injector wells 2 and 5.

Two exploration wells (Kunza-1 and Kunza-2) drilled in the Kunza discovery struck gas and condensate.