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Archie Roland

Archie Roland

Senior Regional Analyst - Africa at Enverus, specializing in oil and gas intelligence with a BSc in Applied Geology

Jul 14, 2026

0:57
Welcome to the show, gents.
1:00
Thank you.
1:00
Good to be back.
1:03
Uh, Archie, I hear you're gonna kick us off, uh, with by sort of going through some of the, uh, recent successes in Côte d'Ivoire where, uh, where Murphy's Babale could help the pay on area achieve commerciality.
1:18
So yes, um, Côte d'Ivoire.
1:20
So Babale 1X was announced, so this was Murphy's third well in a free well campaign in Côte d'Ivoire with the first two being PNA, the first one Suvet, um, non-commercial, and the second one, Caracal, was oil shows.
1:39
So off to a bad start, so this w- a lot was resting on this third one, which, yes, was, uh, announced as a d- oil discovery on the 22nd of June, so just late last month.
1:50
So yeah, this was drilled on their CI-709 block, which is in, I would say, the m- south middle of the offshore Côte d'Ivoire in the ultra deep water, the, the actual well was drilled in nearly 2,400 meters of water depth, and to an astonishing 6,263 meters total depth, which I think, if my math is correct, just shy of 20,000 feet or just over, which is very, very deep, um, deep well bore hole.

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