Reconnaissance Energy Africa (ReconAfrica) has announced the completion of a comprehensive subsurface evaluation delineating large scale, prospective conventional hydrocarbon-bearing structures in the entire Kavango Basin.

ReconAfrica is a junior oil and gas company engaged in the opening of the newly discovered deep Kavango Sedimentary Basin, in north-eastern Namibia and north-western Botswana where it holds petroleum licenses of approximately 8.75 million contiguous acres. It holds a 90% interest in a petroleum exploration license in northeast Namibia which covers the entire Kavango sedimentary basin.

The firm said the main objective of its initial three well drilling program, scheduled for the 4th quarter of 2020 is to confirm the availability of oil and gas throughout the deep Kavango Basin.

It said the wells are designed in a way that it will test the organic-rich shales and more shallow conventional structures throughout the basin.

The company’s technical team has generated an understanding of the development of the deep Permian rift basin. This was carried out with the support of a new extended, high-density Aero-Mag survey and Halliburton’s advanced LithoTect® technology and other new ancillary data.

The company said it has been able to identify the faulting systems throughout the basin, responsible for the development of potential conventional fault and stratigraphic hydrocarbon-bearing structures.

Full documentation of the report, ‘ReconAfrica Investor Presentation – Newly discovered Kavango Basin, Namibia and Botswana July 2020’ is available for download on the company’s website.

The Okavango River is located in southwest Africa. It is the fourth-longest river in the region. It begins in Rio Cubango (Known by its Portuguese name) in Angola and forms part of the border between Angola and Namibia and then flows into Botswana. The river does not have an outlet to the sea rather it empties into the Okavango Delta also called Okavango Annuvial Fan, a swamp in the Kalahari Desert.