{"id":192234,"date":"2025-02-25T18:24:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T16:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-another-oil-discovery-in-namibias-orange-basin-boosts-exploration-hopes\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T18:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T16:24:43","slug":"namibia-another-oil-discovery-in-namibias-orange-basin-boosts-exploration-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-another-oil-discovery-in-namibias-orange-basin-boosts-exploration-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Another Oil Discovery in Namibia&#8217;s Orange Basin Boosts Exploration Hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Custos Energy on Tuesday announced another significant oil discovery off the coast of Namibia, further cementing the country&#8217;s Orange Basin as a promising new frontier for hydrocarbon exploration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The company, along with its partners, including operator Galp Energia and the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (NAMCOR), in a statement said it has successfully drilled the Mopane-3X well, the fifth well drilled on Petroleum Exploration License 83 (PEL 83).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">&#8220;We are pleased to announce that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502250423.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Custos Energy on Tuesday announced another significant oil discovery off the coast of Namibia, further cementing the country&#8217;s Orange Basin as a promising new frontier for hydrocarbon exploration. The company, along with its partners, including operator Galp Energia and the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (NAMCOR), in a statement said it has successfully drilled the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":192235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,9745,9156,15761,9746,10002,4706,724,9052,257,4221,4579,254],"class_list":["post-192234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-basin","tag-boosts","tag-discovery","tag-exploration","tag-hopes","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-orange","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}