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Sunday, November 8, 2015
Cairn Energy and its partners in Senegal, FAR Ltd. and ConocoPhillips spud their first appraisal well on the SNE oil field. For reasons of operational efficiency, the top hole of SNE-3 was drilled prior to the spud of SNE-2 by the Ocean Rig Athena.
The SNE-2 well will be drilled in approximately 1,100 meters of water and drilled TD of about 2,770 meters before an evaluation program including logging, coring and flow testing is undertaken.
Three evaluation wells, SNE-2, SNE-3, and the BEL-1 will drilled back to back in a program that is estimated to be completed in mid-2016. Both SNE-2 and SNE-3 appraisal wells will be logged, cored and flow tested.
Drilling of the SNE-2 well is expected to take around five weeks after which the logging and flow testing program will commence. On completion of the operations on SNE-2, SNE-3 will be re-entered and drilling and evaluation will be carried out on SNE-3 before commencement of the BEL-1 well.
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