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Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Cairn Energy has reentered the second well in its Senegal exploration program, the SNE-1 well. The company had previously drilled the top hole on the well. The SNE-1 is targeting the Shelf Edge Prospect which is a dual objective of stacked Cretaceous clastics and deeper karstified and fractured Lower Cretaceous shelf carbonates, in 1,100 meters water depth. The upper clastic objective is of similar age to oil bearing sands found in FAN-1.
The two objectives in SNE-1 are estimated by Cairn to have a gross mean unrisked prospective resource of 182 million barrels and 256 million barrels respectively, and the well is anticipated to complete before the end of the year.
The first well, FAN-1, was drilled by the Cajun Express and discovered high quality, light oil in multiple stacked deepwater fans. Evaluation is now under way to calibrate the well with the existing 3D seismic in order to decide future activities and potential optimal follow up locations to determine the extent of the discovered resource and additional activity which is targeted for 2015 onwards.
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