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Wednesday, June 28, 2017
The spud of the Fatala-1 well offshore Guinea is moving closer as the Pacific Scirocco drillship has been re-fueled and is returning to Guinea with an estimated time of arrival of June 27. Hyperdynamics, through its wholly-owned subsidiary SCS Corp. and its partner Sapetro are proceeding with their preparations to spud the well.
The operations team of SCS attached to Guinea is being deployed and contracting of helicopter and support vessel services has been completed. The well tubulars for Fatala-1 are being stored in the Port of Conakry until they are loaded on board Pacific Scirocco. In addition, Schlumberger has commenced mobilization of materials, equipment and drilling-related field staff in its role as Integrated Project Manager for the major well drilling services.
Other preparations for the spudding of the Fatala-1 included the ROV to be used to spud the well being loaded onto a vessel in Aberdeen along with the wellhead running tools and will start sailing this week to the Pacific Scirocco in Guinea with an estimated arrival date of around July 10-14. Once the ROV has been installed and tested and the drilling equipment and materials have been loaded onto the drillship, the Pacific Scirocco will be moving to the Fatala-1 location.
According to Hyperdynamics, the well should spud by the end of July.
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