By Kelly Gilblom
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Anadarko Petroleum is scheduled to begin exploring for oil and gas in Kenya in December, with plans to drill two wells, the Ministry of Energy's top official said Monday, continuing the east African country's surge of exploration activity.
The two wells, known as the Kiboko prospect in block L11B and the Kubwa prospect in block L7, will be drilled back to back and cost about $140 million each.
In recent months East Africa has been a centre of oil and gas exploration after several big discoveries, including Kenya's second ever oil find announced by British explorer Tullow Oil and Canadian venture partner Africa Oil last week.
Independent U.S. oil and gas company Anadarko has not yet decided which well will be bored first, but drilling is scheduled to start on December 13, according to Patrick Nyoike, Kenya's permanent secretary of energy.
The company is "drilling in Block L7 and Block L11B, back-to-back. We are now preparing them to start the drilling. I guess next year ... I'll be talking about billions of barrels discovered in Kenya," Nyoike told reporters on the sidelines of a nuclear power workshop.
Anadarko is the operator of blocks L7 and L11B and holds 45 percent of the licences in each. French oil major Total has a 40 percent stake, and Cove Energy holds the remainder.
Energy officials expect explorers to drill at least a dozen more wells in the next 12 months onshore and offshore Kenya.
The Kiboko and Kubwa prospects will be Anadarko's first wells in Kenya, though it made significant gas discoveries offshore Mozambique earlier this year. ? Continued...
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