Overview
Orca is active in Tanzania and Uganda.
In Tanzania, Orca Exploration Group Inc. operates the Songo Songo natural gas field, which supplies natural gas to power and industrial markets in the Dar es Salaam area. Songo Songo is Tanzania’s first natural gas development.
The initial Songo Songo field development consists of five wells. Production is processed at a 70 mmscf/d dehydration and refrigeration gas processing plant on Songo Songo Island and transported by 232 kilometers of pipeline to the Ubungo Power Plant and the Wazo Hill cement plant in Dar es Salaam. The power plant and the cement plant take a maximum of 45 mmscf/d, which is called “Protected Gas”. The Company has the right to develop and market all gas in excess of the “Protected Gas” (this is called "Additional Gas").
In November 2007, Orca announced the successful completion of the SS-10 development well. Following a pressure test it was estimated that the well will flow at an initial rate in excess of 55 mmscf/d when on production. This increases the total Songo Songo field deliverability to over 200 mmscf/d.
In Uganda the Company is participating in an approximately 300 kilometer 2-D seismic exploration programme in Uganda’s Exploration Area 5. The program commenced in December 2007 and is expected to be complete and all data processed by the end of Q1 2008. If, following the results of the seismic program, Orca exercises its option to partner in a drilling program, it will pay 83.33% of the cost of drilling two exploration wells (to a cap of between US$10 million and US$15 million).