A well designed to test Miocene turbidite sands similar to pay in South Furious 30 oil field 4 km to the south offshore Sabah, Malaysia, is dry.
The local affiliate of operator Lundin Petroleum AB will plug the Kitabu-1 wildcat, which it drilled to planned total depth of 2,270 m on Blocks SB307-308. The company said the targeted reservoir proved to be poor-quality siltstone. There were no hydrocarbon shows (OGJ Online, Oct. 27, 2014).