Cairn to begin Senegal drilling

OE Staff
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

In this video FAR Ltd’s managing director Catherine Norman, explains the company’s upcoming appraisal/exploration drilling program, as part of the Cairn Energy operated offshore Senegal permits.



Cairn, with FAR and other joint venture partners in Senegal, including ConocoPhillips, are expecting to start appraisal drilling on the major SNE-1 discovery in the coming weeks. The three wells in the firm drilling program will be drilled using the ConocoPhillips contracted drillship Ocean Rig Athena.



Two wells will be drilled to appraise the SNE field and are aimed at proving the threshold economic field size which the operator announced is >= 200 MMbbl for a foundation project.

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