UK-based explorer Cairn Energy is ramping up its exploration and appraisal work offshore Senegal following the firm’s two major discoveries in the country made last year. Cairn is planning a “very ambitious” three-year evaluation plan…
Cairn Energy is planning an up to six-well exploration campaign offshore Senegal, starting this year, after making potentially the largest global oil discovery in the country's waters last year. Image from Cairn…
Cairn Energy has confirmed an oil find on the SNE-1 well offshore Senegal, but says a deeper target was dry. The SNE-1 well discovered oil in the upper clastic target, but no hydrocarbons were subsequently encountered in the deeper target…
Cairn Energy strikes again in Senegal as its second find hit high quality oil at the SNE-1 well off West Africa. Map of Senegal. From Cairn. SNE-1 is located approximately 100km offshore…
Cairn Energy's second planned exploration well offshore Senegal is underway, the firm said today (30 October). The SNE-1 probe on the Sangomar Deep Block follows Cairn's successful FAN-1 well, on the same block, which struck oil early…
UK-based Cairn Energy and its Senegalese partners have made an oil discovery, which has the potential to be a “significant standalone development”, on the deepwater FAN-1 well. The well, drilled using the semisubmersible Cajun Express…
Australian explorer Far Ltd. reported on 10 June that the Cairn-operated FAN-1 exploration well offshore Senegal is delayed for maintenance work and the drilling program was being modified. 'Having set 13-3/8in. casing in the FAN-1 well ahead of drilling into the two main objectives…
Cairn Energy's JM-1 well, offshore Morocco, is to be plugged and abandoned without testing, after funding heavy oil. The JM-1 well (operated by Cairn with 37.5% WI) was drilled to evaluate Upper Jurassic and Middle Jurassic objectives…
Alaska states Arctic needs Alaska’s Lt. Governor Mead Treadwell stated the case for the state’s needs at the Ice-Diminished Arctic Conference in Washington, D.C. He emphasized the need for safety, security, and economic development in the region…
US operator ConocoPhillips has agreed to acquire a 35% stake in three contiguous blocks offshore Senegal, West Africa, through two deals announced today. ConocoPhillips is to acquire a 25% interest in the three blocks from Scotland-based…
Cairn Energy PLC announce it will farm-in as operator of three blocks offshore Senegal in West Africa. This transaction will add a number of drillable prospects to the frontier exploration inventory and drilling program in the next 18 months…
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