Leopard purrs loudly for Shell in Gabonese pre-salt

摘要

The deepwater pre-salt off Gabon has just got distinctly more exciting with the final well in the current rash of exploration results apparently providing a major discovery. The fly in the ointment is that the company's Leopard find is gas rather than the hoped for oil, replicating the results from the only other deep pre-salt find off the country - last year's Diaman discovery in the neighbouring Diaba block for Total which was gas and condensate.