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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Cairn Energy and its partners offshore Senegal, FAR Ltd., ConocoPhillips, and Petrosen have spud their third well. The BEL-1 well is part of the appraisal program of the SNE oil field.
The BEL-1 well will be drilled in approximately 1,100 meters of water and drilled to a TDVSS of around 2,757 meters before an evaluation program including logging and coring is undertaken.
The aim of the appraisal program is to progress towards proving a minimum economic field size for the SNE discovery, which FAR estimates to be approximately 200 million barrels of oil. In addition, the BEL-1 well will drill the Bellatrix exploration prospect which will evaluate the untested Buried Hills play. The well will be deepened to appraise the northern portion of the SNE oil field.
Drilling of the BEL-1 well will be followed by a wireline logging and coring program before the well is plugged and abandoned according to plans. BEL-1 operations are expected to be completed next month.
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