Simba Energy Confirms Oil Seeps in Guinea
07 Agosto 2012 - 10:20AM
Business Wire
Simba Energy Inc. ("Simba" or the "Company") (TSXV: SMB,
Frankfurt: GDA, OTCQX: SMBZF), the pan-African oil & gas
explorer, with approval of the OGRPP (de l’Office Guineen de
Recherche et de Promotion Petrolieres) has completed an educational
lecture and field trip in the Republic of Guinea.
Simba Energy’s James W. Dick, Chief Technical Officer &
Director, conducted an educational lecture that combined boardroom
presentation and a field trip to visit the Company’s concession.
The lecture held at the OGRPP (de l’Office Guineen de Recherche et
de Promotion Petrolieres) was attended by over 30 geologic and
technical staff.
The field trip to Simba’s Block 2 identified and sampled
numerous oil seeps and a contaminated (unpalatable) water well.
Many samples were taken for laboratory analysis to confirm the
presence of hydrocarbon. Preliminary tests on two samples showed
significant florescence confirming the presence of hydrocarbon.
The Company has also opened an office in Conakry, complete with
locally hired support staff and a Country Manager.
Simba Energy’s James Dick remarked, “...with this trip we firmly
established Simba’s presence on the ground in Guinea. We are very
pleased with the magnitude and number of seeps found, with
hydrocarbon odor present at some of these locations. The Company is
pleased with its progress to date and will continue with its
activities to prepare for further appraisal work.”
The Company holds a 60% operating interest in the PSC
(Production Sharing Contract) for onshore Blocks 1 & 2,
comprising 12,000 square kilometres in the Bove Basin. The
Company’s upcoming appraisal and planned seismic work as part of
the PSC is supported by the following (historical) highlights and
rationale:
- Confirmed presence and size of seeps
prove migration and communication have taken place in the
basin
- In 1989, the French laboratory Beicip,
performed a detailed analysis which indicted the level of maturity
was mature to over mature and the source was likely oil prone
- Silurian shales which are the major
source rock in all the northern African basins are present and in
communication with thick porous Ordovician sands
- Three reservoir systems are present in
the basin with fair to good reservoir parameters (both clastic
sediments and carbonates)
- An earlier gravity survey over the
entire basin indicated sediments were present up to a depth of
4,000 meters and confirms Simba’s concession covers two basement
deeps as well as the northwest flank
- The Bove basin’s tectonic style can
form structures that produce traps capable of pooling large
reserves
- The Cretaceous overlies the Devonian in
the North West corner of Block 1 with many of the wells drilled in
Guinea Bissau lying just to the north (of Block 1) encountered
light oil staining in core and samples
About Simba Energy Inc.
Simba Energy Inc. is a Pan African oil & gas exploration
company focused on onshore opportunities across Africa. Simba holds
a 100% Production Sharing Contract (PSC) for Block 2A in Kenya, 60%
interest in Blocks 1 and 2, onshore Republic of Guinea, and has
Block 3 (onshore) Mali. Simba also has applications pending for
onshore blocks in Liberia and Ghana and continues evaluating and
assessing other strategic assets throughout sub-Sahara Africa.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD"Robert Dinning", President & CEO
Simba Essel Energy (CE) (USOTC:SMBZF)
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