Exploration news

Located 18 km south-east of Sapakara South, Krabdagu-1 was drilled at a water depth of 780 m and encountered approximately 90 m of net oil pay in good quality Maastrichtian and Campanian reservoirs.

Start-up is expected during 2Q22 and the project will run for approximately 1 month.

The project, in support of India's licence round schedule, encompasses over 250 000-line km of existing 2D data across an area of over half a million km2 offshore India's east coast.

The Noble Tom Prosser jack-up drilling rig has completed the move to the Pavo-1 well location offshore Western Australia and has concluded the jack-down and other pre-drill operations.

ReconAfrica is to acquire half of NAMCOR’s 10% carried participating interest in the approximate 6.3 million acres petroleum exploration licence in the Kavango Basin, Namibia.

Petrobras’ geophysical processing team will have access to a full range of geophysical processing tools, including time, depth, multicomponent, time-lapse 4D processing and advanced imaging offered by the Shearwater Reveal software platform.

The interval just drilled by Melbana Energy at the Alameda-1 exploration well commenced at approximately 3077 mMD (2970 mTVD), indicating a potential gross reservoir interval of possibly as much as 500 mMD (450 mTVD).

Petrofac has been awarded two new contracts with Cairn Oil & Gas, Vedanta Ltd.

It is anticipated that further exploration activity, including a second exploration well, will be required to determine the size and recoverable potential of the identified hydrocarbons at the Graff-1 deepwater exploration well.

Drilling is expected to commence within the next week after allowing for towing and set up.