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Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Cairn Energy confirmed the results of the drilling of the JM-1 well offshore Morocco that was recently reported by state-run ONHYM. Cairn said that the well was drilled to evaluate Upper Jurassic and Middle Jurassic objectives and reached a total depth of 3,711 meters TVDSS. The well was subsequently plugged and abandoned without testing.
In the Upper Jurassic section, the well confirmed the presence of heavy oil over a gross interval of 110 meters as originally tested in the 1968 MO-2 well. Reservoir quality and the oil gravity in the Upper Jurassic across the Cap Juby structure require further evaluation by Cairn and its JV partners ONHYM and Genel Energy. Work is ongoing to correlate the core and log data from JM-1 with other wells on Cap Juby to evaluate the extent of moveable hydrocarbons and how any further assessment should be conducted.
The Middle Jurassic objective was encountered with limited primary porosity and evaluation of well logs and side wall cores continues.
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