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Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Kosmos Energy will launch its latest drilling program offshore Mauritania and Senegal by the end of the month with the spud of the Hippocampe well. The Hippocampe prospect is located offshore Mauritania and is just one of three plannedwells.
The drilling program is targeting high impact wells with super giant prospects according to Andrew Inglis, Kosmos chairman and CEO.
The program will begin with Hippocampe in Block 8, which is comprised of a series of stack basin floor fans in a combination of structural stratigraphic trap providing potential for more liquid-rich gas and/or oil. The well is targeting Cenomanian and Albian age reservoirs charged by the Valanginian, Neocomian and potentially Albian sources. Both reservoir targets displayed very strong seismic attribute support for hydrocarbons, including calibrated AVO, which conforms to structure.
“Hippocampe is a good example of our prospect to continuing to grow. We previously described Hippocampe as a prospect with a p-mean resource of over 2 billion boe or 12 Tcf of gas equivalent,” Inglis said in the company’s Q2 2017 earnings call. “We now believe the potential in and adjacent to Hippocampe is significantly larger having received an integrated new seismic data into our analysis.”
Next on the schedule is the Lamantin well, which Kosmos expects to spud in Q4, followed by the Requin Tigre in Senegal at the end of 2017.
“We have now received fast-track 3D process gathers, which display good distinctive AVO in support of the prospect. We continue to view Lamantin as our best chance of finding black oil in the basin, given its location in the heart of the Cenomanian-Turonian, Albian source systems and estimate the p-mean resource size is 2 to 3 billion boe.
“After Lamantin, Kosmos is planning to move to Requin Tigre in Senegal at the end of 2017.Requin Tigre is the 60 Tcf test of a large basin and for fan, which we believe is lighting to more gas prone given its proximity to Tortue and other results in Senegal,” Inglis said.
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