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Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Brazil’s HRT has let no grass grow, or in this case kelp, under its feet offshore Namibia. The company spud its second well offshore the southern African country on June 1, just days after releasing the results of its Wingat-1 well. The Murombe-1 well, the second in its back-to-back drilling campaign, is being drilled on PEL 23.
The Murombe-1 well is located in 1,391 meters of water, just 15 km east of the Wingat. The well will test a 1,000 sq km basin floor fan on a way 4-dip closure at its highest structural elevation within a turbidite complex. The main objective of this well is to test the resource potential of Barremian aged turbidite reservoirs that have a well-defined seismic amplitude anomaly on the PSDM 3D data set. A shallower secondary objective, the Santonian aged Baobab confined channel complex with turbidite reservoirs, which is between the two oil producing source rocks, will also be penetrated.
HRT expects to encounter the Boabab at around 3,670 meters depth and the Murombe reservoir is expected to be encountered at 5,090 meters depth below sea level. Murombe-1 will be drilled to a projected total depth of 5,360 meters by the Transocean Mariana.
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