The Manora oil joint venture spudded the MNA-17 well offshore Thailand, in hopes of adding contingent resources at the development.
The project area is located in the Northern Gulf of Thailand, and is a partnership between Mubadala Petroleum (60%), Northern Gulf Petroleum (30%) and Tap Oil (10%).
The JV has identified the opportunity to add near facility production at Manora through additional development drilling, and to potentially add contingent resources via an appraisal well.
As the MNA-17 well has both the appraisal and development components, operator Mubadala has commenced drilling the well to a total depth of 1859.3m, using the Atwood Orca jackup, Tap said.
MNA-17 will appraise the 500 series sands and assess a separate untested fault block - the Manora West Structure - which has the potential to de-risk the Greater Manora West prospective resources.
The well will utilize the upper pilot section before being deviated into the central fault block as a new production well. MNA-17 is expected to increase Manora production performance.
Image of the Atwood Orca jackup, from Atwood.
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