Test results de-risk Cove's Mozambique's resource estimates

Cove Energy, the east Africa-focused oil and gas company that recently put itself up for sale, said the Lagosta 2 appraisal well off the coast of Mozambique has shown the thickest gas pay to date of its current drilling campaign.

Cove Energy, the east Africa-focused oil and gas company that recently put itself up for sale, said the Lagosta 2 appraisal well off the coast of Mozambique has shown the thickest gas pay to date of its current drilling campaign.

Lagosta 2, the seventh successful well to drill in the Windjammer, Lagosta, Barquentine and Camaro (WLBC) gas complex, encountered 237 net metres (777 feet) of natural gas pay in multi-zones. This is the largest pay count of any well in the WLBC gas complex so far.

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