ExxonMobil Exploration Co.’s Libyan affiliate has spud the first deepwater exploration well off Libya.
The A1-20/3 well is being drilled in Contract Area 20 in the Sirte basin in the Mediterranean northeast of Misrata, Libya.
ExxonMobil Libya Ltd. didn’t give the water depth or projected depth of the well. It is using Noble Africa Ltd.’s Noble Homer Ferrington semisubmersible capable of drilling to 30,000 ft in as much as 7,200 ft of water.
Elsewhere in Libya, the subsidiary has completed two 3D seismic surveys in offshore Contract Areas 20 and 21 and three 2D seismic surveys in offshore Contract Areas 44, 20, and 21.
