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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
The Oryx Petroleum well spud in September offshore the Republic of Congo (ROC) using the Jasper Explorer drillship, H-1 well, was not a hit for the company. The well was targeting the Horse Prospect (formerly Ma) on the Haute Mer A license area.
The H-1 was drilled to a total depth of 5,522 meters in late-November. The well was drilled in 1,038 meters of water 80 km offshore ROC in the western portion of the Haute Mer A. Primary targets were the Tertiary N3 reservoir, a turbidite play, and the deeper Cretaceous reservoir, an Albian age carbonate play.
Although the H-1 well encountered both Tertiary and Cretaceous reservoirs with good porosity, the reservoirs were water bearing. The company and its partners will analyze and incorporate the information obtained from the drilling of Horse into the plans for the Haute Mer A license area in which Oryx Petroleum has a 20% participating and working interest. The Jasper Explorer will now move to test the previously announced Elephant discovery.
Commenting, Henry Legarre, Oryx Petroleum’s COO, stated: “In Haute Mer A the results of the high risk Horse well were disappointing; however, we will now accelerate testing of the previously announced Elephant discovery.”
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