Senegal drilling programme completed
Cairn and its Joint Venture partners have completed operations on the SNE-1 well in Senegal and plans are now underway to appraise the discovery next year.
Plugged and abandoned
Having discovered oil in the upper clastic target, no hydrocarbons were subsequently encountered in the deeper target of karstified and fractured Lower Cretaceous shelf carbonates. Following completion of logging operations the well will be plugged and abandoned.
The SNE-1 well located in 1100 m water depth and approximately 100 km offshore in the Sangomar Offshore block was drilled to a total depth of ~3000 m.
Offshore Senegal
Cairn has a 40% Working Interest (WI) in three blocks offshore Senegal (Sangomar Deep, Sangomar Offshore and Rufisque) ConocoPhillips has 35% WI, FAR Ltd 15% WI and Petrosen, the national oil company of Senegal 10%. The three blocks cover 7490 km2.
Adapted from press release by Cecilia Rehn
Read the article online at: https://www.oilfieldtechnology.com/offshore-and-subsea/19112014/cairn-energy-senegal-drilling-programme-completed/
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