Exploration & Development

Eni reports gas shows in well off Brazil

Nov. 14, 2005

Italy's Eni SPA told the National Petroleum Agency of Brazil that its 1-ENI-4A-RJS wildcat, drilled to 5,900 m TD in 387 m of water on Santos basin Block BM-S-4 off Brazil, encountered gas shows.

Peter Howard Wertheim
OGJ correspondent

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 14 -- Italy's Eni SPA told the National Petroleum Agency of Brazil that its 1-ENI-4A-RJS wildcat, drilled to 5,900 m TD in 387 m of water on Santos basin Block BM-S-4 off Brazil, encountered gas shows.

Pride International Inc.'s Pride Rio de Janeiro semisubmersible drilled the well, targeting Tertiary and Cretaceous turbidite structures, in the western part of the block.

Petrobras's Mexilhao deep gas field lies 36 km southwest of the drillsite.

An Eni well drilled in 2003 on the southeastern part of the block encountered 14° gravity oil in its upper section. That well was plugged and abandoned.