CGX Energy Inc., Toronto, has respudded the Eagle-1 exploratory well offshore Guyana that was halted in June 2000 due to overlapping maritime border claims between Guyana and Suriname.
Eagle-1, on the company’s 100% owned and operated Corentyne petroleum prospecting license, is to go to 4,250 m to test the Eocene and Maastrichtian geologic zones. The Ocean Saratoga semisubmersible is handling the 60-day assignment.
Following peaceful resolution of the boundary dispute, CGX has shot two 3D seismic surveys, creating a portfolio of prospects on the Corentyne PPL, Eagle-1 being the first well to be drilled to test the original Eocene prospect, plus a deeper Maastrichtian prospect, both of which are stratigraphic tests.
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.
