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Thursday, August 23, 2018
FAR Ltd. has chosen its final well location for the upcoming Samo-1 well offshore Gambia. The well site selection follows the reprocessing and interpretation of 3D seismic data, detailed mapping of the Samo Prospect and detailed well engineering by FAR.
The Samo Prospect lies immediately to the south and along trend from the giant SNE oil field in Senegal, a trend which has so far seen nine successful exploration and appraisal wells (at 100% success rate).
The well will be located in approximately 1,017 meters water depth offshore Gambia in the highly prospective Mauritania-Senegal-Guinea-Bissau-Conakry (MSGBC) Basin.
The Samo Prospect has two main targets; an upper reservoir interval which contained liquid-rich gas at SNE and a lower reservoir interval which was oil-bearing at SNE.
The Samo-1 well is planned to spud in early Q4 2018 and is expected to take approximately 40 days to drill on a trouble-free basis. The well will be drilled using the Stena DrillMax.
Samo-1 will be the first well drilled offshore Gambia for 40 years.
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