ERHC Energy Update on Status of FTG Survey of Block 11A

Preparations continue for Bell Geospace to acquire an airborne Full Tensor Gravity Gradiometry (FTG) survey of ERHC Energy’s Block 11A in northwestern Kenya.

Block 11A is north and slightly west of Block 13T, location of the Ekales-1 well, where one of the most prolific oil and gas explorers in Africa this week announced the latest Kenya oil discovery. The proximity and in-trend relationship of the Lotikipi plain – the main surface feature of Block 11A – with the Ekales-1 and Twiga South-1 discoveries in Block 13T as well as the Etuko-1 and Ngamia-1 discoveries in Block 10BB, suggest a high prospectivity for hydrocarbons.

The FTG survey is an airborne survey used successfully in Africa and contributed to recent oil discoveries in Uganda and Kenya. Such surveys aid significantly in the structural mapping of prospective hydrocarbon basins. The information gathered will enable ERHC to focus on the most promising areas for acquisition of 2D seismic data, which is the next step in the work program for the Kenya Block. The combined results of the FTG and seismic work will then determine the nature and location of any drilling in the Block.

In addition to Kenya Block 11A, ERHC’s oil and gas exploration interests extend across the African continent, including the Republic of Chad, the Sao Tome and Principe Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and the Nigeria- Sao Tome and Principe Joint Development Zone (JDZ).

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