Zennor Pathway Ltd. expects production to begin in 2019-20 from Finlaggan natural gas and condensate field in the Central UK North Sea.
The Transocean Paul B. Loyd Jr. semisubmersible last month spudded the 21/05c-F1 well in the PL2013 area about 120 miles northeast of Aberdeen.
It’s the first of two slimhole, directional development wells the Zennor Petroleum subsidiary plans to drill to about 16,600 ft for development of a Lower Cretaceous accumulation discovered in 2005 by ConocoPhillips.
Zennor will complete the wells subsea in about 420 ft of water for tieback to ConocoPhillips’s Britannia platform 11 miles northeast.
It expects peak production of 80 MMscfd of gas and 4,500 b/d of 52.3° gravity condensate.
Zennor, of Guildford, UK, holds a 100% interest in the development.
