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Monday, October 19, 2015
The Ocean Rig Athena drill ship has commenced mobilization from Luanda, Angola in preparation for the appraisal and exploration drilling program offshore Senegal for FAR and its partners Cairn Energy and ConocoPhillips.
The SNE discovery made in late-2014 will be appraised with the first two wells in the three-well drilling program. SNE was ranked by IHS CERA as the world’s largest oil discovery for 2014 and a key aim of the appraisal program will be proving the threshold for economic field size which FAR estimates is in the order of 200 million barrels for a foundation project.
The firm drilling program will include a coring and testing program, two appraisal wells for SNE (SNE-2 and SNE- 3) plus one shelf exploration well (BEL-1) to further evaluate the shelf area prospectivity. The three wells will be drilled, logged, cored and tested in a program expected to be completed by mid-2016.
The BEL-1 will be the first exploration well to be drilled in the blocks following the discoveries in the FAN-1 and SNE- 1 wells. This well will be aimed at building the resource base within tie-back range of a possible future hub development over the SNE field. It will be drilled into the Bellatrix Prospect. The well will be deepened to appraise the northern extent of the SNE field so has a key, dual role in the drilling program
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