Apache North Sea Ltd. has spudded a well on the Tryfan prospect on Block 3/17 in the UK northern North Sea, said Valiant Petroleum PLC.
Valiant said Tryfan is an Eocene channelized sand play with a strong seismic amplitude response. Tryfan has a gross prospective resource estimated internally by Valiant at a gross 24 million bbl of oil equivalent. Drilling time is estimated at 25 days. Valiant’s interest is 33.33%.
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Alan Petzet
Chief Editor Exploration
Alan Petzet is Chief Editor-Exploration of Oil & Gas Journal in Houston. He is editor of the Weekly E&D Newsletter, emailed to OGJ subscribers, and a regular contributor to the OGJ Online subscriber website.
Petzet joined OGJ in 1981 after 13 years in the Tulsa World business-oil department. He was named OGJ Exploration Editor in 1990. A native of Tulsa, he has a BA in journalism from the University of Tulsa.