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Thursday, November 17, 2016
Erin Energy is continuing its preparations for its next drilling campaign on Nigeria’s Oyo field on OML 120. The drilling campaign is set to start later this year, or early 2017, depending on rig availability. The company has secured all required permits to drill and the operational planning process is currently being finalized.
According to the company, a key part of the planned drilling campaign is the drilling of an additional development well, the Oyo-9 well, located within the central area of the Oyo field. Oyo-9 is planned to be tied-back to the Oyo field production facility via planned new subsea infrastructure. This phase of development, expected to be completed in Q2 2017, will increase field production by approximately 6,000 to 7,000 bpd.
The company also updated activities on restarting the Oyo-7 well. The well was shut in during July as a result of an emergency shut in of the FPSO. The well was unable to come back online naturally due to high water production and resulted in a temporary loss of approximately 1,400 bpd. Erin attempted an intermittent nitrogen lift gas injection from the facility to attempt to bring the well back on production, which was not fully implemented due to some operational constraints. It is now looking at another nitrogen lift attempt and other technical options that can provide continuous lift assistance for well startup.
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