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accession: "0000894627-26-000054"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EGY"
cik: "0000894627"
company_name: "VAALCO ENERGY INC /DE/"
filed_at: "2026-10-07T10:58:37+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-10-12T16:02:30.627904+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Vaalco wraps Gabon Phase 3 as ETSEM-3H flows ~2,000 gross BOPD; Baobab Phase 5 drilling starts

## Summary
- ETSEM-3H development well in an attic position within Gabon's SE Etame field placed on production; 300 meters of net pay in Gamba reservoir sands.
- Stabilized initial flow rate of about 2,000 gross BOPD, or 1,140 BOPD net to Vaalco; Phase 3 drilling program now complete.
- Borr Norve rig demobilized from the SE Etame platform after the final Phase 3 well.
- Offshore Côte d'Ivoire, Baobab Phase 5 has begun with batch-setting of top-holes; plan calls for four producers, three water injectors and two workovers.
- First new Baobab producer expected online near end of 2026, with meaningful production growth anticipated in 2027, per CEO George Maxwell.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000894627-26-000054
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EGY
- cik: 0000894627
- company_name: VAALCO ENERGY INC /DE/
- filed_at: 2026-10-07T10:58:37+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/894627/000089462726000054/0000894627-26-000054-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/894627/000089462726000054/egy-20261007.htm

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