Stena Drilling’s drillship spuds ‘extremely anticipated’ effectively at fuel discipline offshore Morocco

London-based oil and fuel participant Energean has began drilling actions at a effectively situated on a pure fuel discipline off the coast of Morocco, utilizing a drillship owned by Stena Drilling, an Aberdeen-based offshore drilling contractor.

The London-based agency just lately made a transfer to enlarge its footprint within the Mediterranean area with a brand new nation entry, enabled by partnership agreements with Chariot to take over the operator function at two Moroccan offshore licenses, masking the Lixus offshore license (Lixus), the place the Anchois fuel improvement challenge is situated, and the Rissana offshore license (Rissana).

In consequence, Energean now acts because the operator and holds 45% and 37.5% of the respective pursuits within the Lixus and Rissana licenses offshore Morocco with Chariot retaining 30% and 37.5% of the respective pursuits in these licenses, and ONHYM sustaining a 25% stake in every. Stena Drilling was employed on a one-well agency task on the Anchois fuel discipline with the flexibleness to drill a further choice effectively in Morocco.

Because of the award, the rig proprietor’s 2009-built Stena Forth sixth-generation harsh surroundings dual-activity dynamically positioned (DP3) drillship was slated to embark on its new drilling task within the third quarter of 2024. The rig just lately accomplished a particular periodic survey (SPS) at Astilleros Canarios (Astican) within the port of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

In accordance with Energean’s accomplice, Chariot, the rig has arrived on location, and drilling operations have begun on the Anchois East effectively (Anchois-3) on the Anchois fuel challenge. The drilling and circulation testing operations are estimated to take round two months, with Chariot anticipated to be totally carried for the anticipated prices of the drilling marketing campaign. Anchois-3 is a multi-objective effectively with distinct operational phases.

Moreover, an preliminary pilot gap might be drilled with the primary goal of evaluating the potential of the Anchois Footwall prospect in an undrilled fault block to the east of the primary discipline, which has a 2U potential useful resource estimate of 170 bcf in the primary O Sand goal.

Afterward, a side-track might be drilled to intersect and additional consider the found fuel sands within the Anchois discipline, with a present 2C contingent useful resource estimate of 637 bcf, within the jap a part of the primary fault block of the sector.

The subsequent part will entail the drilling of the deeper Anchois North Flank prospect with a further 2U potential useful resource estimate of 213 bcf, which may also de-risk the close by Anchois South Flank prospect with a 2U potential useful resource estimate of 372 bcf.

As soon as these operations have been accomplished, effectively circulation testing might be carried out on chosen encountered fuel sands to judge reservoir and effectively productiveness. The effectively will then be suspended to allow it for use as a possible future producer.

Adonis Pouroulis, CEO of Chariot, commented: “We’re very happy to begin this extremely anticipated effectively on the Anchois fuel discipline. We see important upside potential and worth from the potential sources within the pilot gap and essential gap targets which may improve the useful resource base to over 1Tcf and we glance ahead, on success, to shifting in direction of a ultimate funding determination as shortly as doable.”