{"id":197188,"date":"2025-05-01T11:47:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-no-hydrocarbons-in-deepwater-offshore-marula-well\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T11:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:47:05","slug":"namibia-no-hydrocarbons-in-deepwater-offshore-marula-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-no-hydrocarbons-in-deepwater-offshore-marula-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: No Hydrocarbons in Deepwater Offshore Marula Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><em>Totalenergies&#8217; latest exploration well offshore Namibia was a dry hole.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The Deepsea Mira semisub drilled the Marula-1X well to 6 460m MD on Block 2913B in the Orange Basin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The well was designed to target Albian-age sandstones within the Marula fan complex, 47km south of the Venus-1X well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">However, there were no hydrocarbons in the primary target. Following completion of drilling operations, the rig will be demobilised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">TotalEnergies&#8217; partner Impact Oil and Gas chief executive Siraj Ahmed says:&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505010173.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>Totalenergies&#8217; latest exploration well offshore Namibia was a dry hole. The Deepsea Mira semisub drilled the Marula-1X well to 6 460m MD on Block 2913B in the Orange Basin. The well was designed to target Albian-age sandstones within the Marula fan complex, 47km south of the Venus-1X well. However, there were no hydrocarbons in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":197189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,43966,1931,42747,4706,724,257,26942,254],"class_list":["post-197188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deepwater","tag-hydrocarbons","tag-marula","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-offshore","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/197188","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=197188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}