Further oil discoveries offshore Ghana, in the Deepwater Tano / Cape Three Points licence block, have been announced by Hess Corporation. The Pecan-1 exploration well (announced in December 2012) was the fifth discovery well and encountered 245 net feet of oil pay in two separate Turonian intervals. The ... more
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