Upstream project news

Located approximately 125 km offshore Mauritania, the Orca-1 well exceeded pre-drill expectations encountering 36 m of net gas pay.

The WZ 6-12 M1 exploration well is located in between the Weizhou 6-12 North and South Fields and is targeting the T40 - T42 stacked reservoirs.

The project will last approximately 1 month and commence in 1Q20.

Prior to the drilling of well 6506/11-11 S, the operator’s resource estimate for the discovery was between 3 and 21 million m3 of recoverable oil equivalents.

GMS's customer is an international EPC contractor, for which GMS will provide support for offshore activities on behalf of a Middle East national oil company.

The scope of work for fabrication of the SPS includes: project management; fabrication engineering; procurement; pre-assembly; fabrication; acceptance tests; and system-integration tests.

The licence and assurance will allow certain US and US-owned or controlled entities and also non-US entities to continue providing goods, services and support to Rhum beyond 31 October 2019; when the current licence expires.

DST2 was performed over a 12 m interval from 2834 m in the upper portion of the Lower Tsagaantsav Formation. The zone flowed oil and some associated gas to surface without the need for any artificial lift.

The 2D seismic acquisition programme in the Beetaloo Sub-basin in Australia's Northern Territory is expected to take 3 weeks to complete, after which the data will be processed.

At the end of ramp-up, production will reach a capacity of approximately 3 million m3 of gas and 3000 bpd of condensate.