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Shell spuds critical Orange basin appraisal well on 2.5 billion barrel oil find - Upstream Online

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Shell spuds critical Orange basin appraisal well on 2.5 billion barrel oil find | Upstream Online

Shell has started drilling a critical appraisal well on its multibillion-barrel Jonker discovery offshore Namibia, a probe that is remarkable for how far it lies from the discovery well.

Jonker looks set to be the UK supermajor’s first development in the Orange basin, government officials remarked recently, because its viability is deemed to better than Graff, the company’s debut discovery...