By: Donald V. Watkins
Copyrighted and Published on November 17, 2024
Earlier this month, Norwegian-based Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) ASA issued a Public Notice of its Application for an Environmental Clearance Certificate for Proposed Multiclient/Proprietary Controlled Source Electromagnetic (CSEM) Surveys, Walvis, Lüderitz, and Orange Basins, Offshore Namibia.
One of the oil blocks listed in EMGS's Public Notice is Block 2113A in the Walvis Basin. The Namibian government licensed this oil block to Nabirm Energy Services (Pty) Ltd.
In 2015, Houston, Texas-based ION Geophysical Corporation confirmed the presence of at least 522 million barrels of “unrisked” recoverable Brent crude oil and 583 billion cubic feet of “unrisked” methane natural gas in Oil Block 2113A.
Turning Dreams into Reality
In August 2011, Olayinka Arowolo and I co-founded Nabirm Energy Services (Pty) Ltd. to explore oil and gas opportunities in the Republic of Namibia (West Africa). Arowolo is a successful African entrepreneur and experienced corporate executive who lives and works in Namibia.
At the time, I was heading Masada Resource Group, a waste-to-energy company that is known in the clean energy industry today as OxyNol Solutions.
Nabirm is headquartered in Windhoek, the beautiful capital city of Namibia.
African-based GRAFFI DBA Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd. became a Nabirm shareholder in 2014. U.S.-based Horizons, LLC (Huntsville, Alabama), became a shareholder in 2020.
On January 16, 2015, UK-based Upstream magazine called Nabirm a “minnow” in the international oil and gas world. This "minnow" undertook and completed the same 2D seismic work program for offshore oil and gas exploration that was undertaken and completed by major international oil companies in the Walvis Basin.
On November 11, 2015, OffShore Engineer magazine shocked the oil and gas industry when it made this announcement about Nabirm:
Exciting Times Ahead for Nabirm
There are exciting times ahead for Nabirm, its executive team, shareholders, and their work in the international oil and gas business. What many people thought was impossible for this "minnow" to achieve is now our reality, as Nabirm prepares for EMGS's Proprietary Controlled Source Electromagnetic (CSEM) Survey operations on Oil Block 2113A.
Nabirm is a testatment to the power of networking in business on a global scale. Rugged individualism is fine for many small businesses, but global networking is required to explore, develop, and build a sustainable international oil and gas company.
To those who believed in Nabirm and supported us along our journey, we say, "Thank You!"