Geothermal Development Company (GDC) team has commenced the process of moving a second GDC-owned rig to from the Menengai Geothermal Project in Nakuru County to the Baringo-Silali Geothermal Project, in Baringo County.
The Drilling and Infrastructure Division is moving the rig christened Kifaru 1 by road to the Korosi Well 2 site in the Baringo-Silali Geothermal Project. The rig move procedure will take about 45 days to complete. The transfer of Kifaru 2 to Korosi now brings the total number of geothermal drilling rigs in the North Rift Region to two.
The first rig in the region, Kifaru 1, has completed drilling three geothermal exploration wells at Paka and is currently at the Korosi Well 1 site. The deployment of the two rigs is expected to speed up the ongoing exploration drilling activities at the Baringo-Silali Geothermal Project.
The Baringo-Silali Block has an estimated potential of 3,000MW which will be developed in phases. The first phase will develop 300MW -100MW each from the Paka, Korosi, and Silali Prospects.
Our business is drilling – managing operations, engineering, well design, technical equipment selection, rig selection and equipment – these are areas of expertise that we offer to our clients – as an example, one of our clients (MAERSK OIL – before they merged with TOTAL) asked for our help when they moved to AFRICA to prepare to drill in deep water offshore ANGOLA – MAERSK ANGOLA contracted a drill ship (PRIDE SOUTH PACIFIC/ENSCO 5001) to drill in ultra deep water an exploration well for them – before deploying the rig to location MAERSK asked us to provide them with technical assistance to put the rig and its equipment systems through rigorous testing to make sure that the rig was in optimum condition to avoid costly downtime due to equipment failure – our engineer spent two months on the rig before it mobilized to spud the well and the feed back from the client was that the rig performed without downtime or any failures after it had passed all the tests in port – we would be happy to open a dialogue with GDC to explore any areas where we could offer our range of services to your company.
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