Mubadala Petroleum completed drilling at the MNA-05 development well and began drilling at the MNA-07 and MNA-08 wells on the Manora Field, offshore Thailand.
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The Atwood Orca. From Atwood Oceanics. |
The wells are being drilled with the Atwood Orca jackup rig.
According to JV partner, Tap Oil, platform commissioning at Manora is well underway with hook up and commissioning nearing completion. The partners expect production to begin by mid-November.
Located in the Northern Gulf of Thailand, the Manora A platform is in 46m of water. The 15-well drilling program consists of 10 producer wells and five injector wells, to continue until the end of 1Q 2015.
Tap Oil says it has 2P reserves of 6.1MMbbl, (20.2MMbbl gross) and 2C contingent resources of 3.2MMbbl (10.9MMbbl gross) booked for Manora. Tap will review these reserves and contingent resources following development drilling and production performance.
Last month, Mubadala spudded the fourth and fifth well in the 15-well program, MNA-04 and MNA-05. According to Tap, MNA-04 will be drilled to final target depths of 3430m and MNA-05 to 1934m measured depth. MNA-04 is the first of five planned water injector wells.
In late September, Tap Oil announced that first oil would be pushed back due to a combination of poor weather and setbacks in platform commissioning.
Mubadala is the operator in Manora with 60% interest with partner Tap Oil (30%) and Northern Gulf Petroleum (10%).
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