FAR Ltd., Perth, has selected its final well location for the forthcoming Samo-1 wildcat on the A2 block offshore Gambia.
The prospect lies immediately south and along trend from the large SNE oil field in Senegal waters in which Far also has an interest.
The wildcat will be in 1,017 m of water about 112 km offshore in the prospective Mauritania-Senegal-Guinea-Bissau-Conakry basin.
FAR will operate Samo-1, which has two main targets—the upper reservoir interval that contained liquid-rich gas at SNE and a lower reservoir that was oil-bearing at SNE.
Good-quality reservoirs have been interpreted at both levels and the well is being directed to the crest of the structure.
Samo-1 is slated to be spudded early in this year’s fourth quarter and is expected to take about 40 days to drill on a trouble-free basis.
It is the first well to be drilled off Gambia for 40 years. It will be drilled by the Stena DrillMax dynamic positioning drillship.