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Thursday, November 20, 2014
Cairn Energy and its JV partners completed operations on the SNE-1 well in Senegal and plans are now underway to appraise the discovery next year. During drilling oil was discovered 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 1,100 meters water depth in the Sangomar Offshore block was drilled to a total depth of around 3,000 meters.
Cairn has a 40% interest in and is operator of the three blocks offshore Senegal (Sangomar Deep, Sangomar Offshore and Rufisque), ConocoPhillips has 35% stake, FAR Ltd has a 15% stake, and Petrosen, the national oil company of Senegal holds 10%.
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