SapuraOMV has won approval from Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority to conduct the Kanga-1 geophysical and geotechnical site survey in WA-412-P offshore Western Australia.
SapuraOMV has won approval from Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority to conduct the Kanga-1 geophysical and geotechnical site survey in WA-412-P offshore Western Australia.
The site survey location, for the drilling of the Kanga-1 well, is approx. 163 km north of the town of Karratha in water depths of approx. 147 m. An operational area has been defined within Permit WA-412-P, which represents a 4 km x 4 km area encapsulating all potential geophysical and geotechnical survey locations.
The geophysical component of the survey will collect data for assessment of water depths, seabed topography, seabed conditions and identification of obstructions on the seabed that may include data collection with a multi-beam echo sounder (MBES), side scan sonar (SSS), sub-bottom profiler (SBP) and magnetometer.
The geotechnical component will assess and characterize seabed conditions within the operational area, including calibrating and interpreting geophysical results that may include cone penetration testing (CPT), piston coring or vibracore sampling, and box core sampling.
The two-week survey is expected to take place in January-November 2020.
