Talk:Niger Delta province

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Can some-one fix the line "Success rate to hit oil in the past of this area is as high as 45%" so it makes some sense?--Auric The Rad 01:19, Feb 4, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Niger Delta Province

Indeed, "success rate as high as 45%" is confusing. On average 45% might be better. What it means is that 45% of the wildcats (exploration wells on new, seismically defined prospects) drilled found oil or gas or both. By the way, the term "Niger Delta Field" sounds odd to a petroleum geologist. One should brather talk about Niger Delta province. That is a "geological" province where oil fields occur. Now it appears as if the whole of the Delta is underlain by an oil-bearing layer. (although this was explained in the article not to be the case). In fact only about 5% of the area is underlain by accumulations! That in itself is interesting because then a "Random driller" would have a 5% success rate. The 45% shows the improvement made by geology and seismology. Dr M.H.Nederlof, geologist, Netherlands