Ghanaian energy company Springfield has discovered more than 1.2 billion barrels of oil at the deepwater Afina-1x well in the West Cape Three Points Block 2.
Ghanaian energy company Springfield has discovered more than 1.2 billion barrels of oil at the deepwater Afina-1x well in the West Cape Three Points Block 2. The 673 km2 West Cape Three Points Block 2 (WCTP2), awarded in 2016, is located in the Tano/Western Basin in water depths of of 100 m to 1700 m.
BP has made a gas discovery with the Ginger exploration well, offshore Trinidad. The Ginger exploration well was drilled into two untested fault blocks east of the Cashima field in water depths less than 90 m, approx. 80 km off the south-east coast of Trinidad.
PetroTal is drilling its second horizontal well in the Bretaña field, Peru. The well reached the target Vivian formation at a depth of 2696 m and 700 m of the planned 870 m horizontal section has been drilled. PetroTal is confident that the latest well will behave similarly to the 4H well, which produced 200,000 barrels of oil in 35 days.
Cooper Energy has completed the four well appraisal programme at the Callawonga oil field, Cooper Basin, South Australia. Three wells showed oil and one was found to be dry.
ConocoPhillips is drilling to a depth of 127 m in Block 25/7 in the North Sea to test the Hasselbaink prospect slightly west of the Balder/Ringhorne fields. It also is drilling a second well in production licence PL 917 in the North Sea about 12 km west of Ringhorne and 210 km northwest of Stavanger.
Wintershall Dea Norge is drilling a wildcat well in production licence PL 894. The well will be drilled approx 56 km south of the Asterix discovery, 15 km east of the Balderbra discovery and 110 km southwest of the Aasta Hansteen field.
Equinor is drilling wildcat wells 15/3-12 S and 15/3-12 A in production licence PL 025 in the North Sea. The well will be drilled about 4 km south of the 15/3-4 (Sigrun) discovery. It is also drilling a well in Block 30/6 in the North Sea to test the Helleneset prospect around 6 km from the Oseberg field. Water depth at the site is 107 m.
Whitebark Energy has drilled a 3673 m-deep well at its Wizard Lake development Rex-3 prospect. Initial indications are of a reservoir with excellent oil shows and porosities up to 23% over horizontal intervals of at least 1800 m.
i3 Energy has drilled the 13/23c-11 well at the Liberator field in the Valhall shale. The well has drilled to 67-m measured depth (MD) of sand in the Captain reservoir. Logs indicate oil in the upper Captain sand above the expected oil water contact (OWC) of 5270 ft total vertical depth subsea (TVDSS). Initial interpretation is that the sand thickness above the OWC is lower than anticipated.
Malaysia’s Reach Energy has drilled well K-15 onshore Kazakhstan, targeting Mid-Triassic carbonate reservoirs. The well reached a total depth of 3802 m and has identified a highly graded hydrocarbon trap near the west flank of Kariman Field.
Norwest Energy is drilling the EP368 exploration well in H1 2020 at Lockyer Deep offshore western Australia. The well is approx. 15 km east of the Waitsia gas field and directly on trend with the recent West Erregulla-2 gas discovery which has 2C contingent resources of 1.19Tcf gas.
