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Ophir steps up for African campaign
Posted 03.07.2012 09:08:55 av John Bradbury
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Ocean Rig's Eirik Raude semi-submersible is spearheading a new exploration campaign for UK-listed Ophir Energy by kicking off a three-well drilling campaign offshore Equatorial Guinea.

Eirik Raude is due to batch drill top hole sections on the Fortuna East and West wells in block R offshore Equatorial Guinea, and then move on to Ophir's Tonel 1 prospect, where the rig will drill the entire hole.

Ophir's drilling campaign will target a total of 2.2 billion cubic feet of prospective resources:  Fortuna West has a pre-drill estimate of 773 bcf or 128 million barrels of oil equivalent and Fortuna East 663 bcf or 111 m boe. Both are described as step-out exploration wells after the previous Fortuna gas discovery.  Tonel 1  is thought to contain around 736 bcf; or 123 m boe.

Tonel is aiming for multi-stacked mid-Miocene targets, and the Fortuna wells are aiming for
multiple sacked prospects Miocene to Pliocene age reservoirs. All have been pinpointed with direct hydrocarbon indicators.

Company chief executive Nick Cooper says it will be a busy summer period: “Ophir’s 2012 drilling programme has so far delivered the Jodari-1 and Mzia-1 gas discoveries in Tanzania. With the kick-off of our Equatorial Guinea campaign, we are now running simultaneous drilling campaigns in West and East Africa through the summer.” He adds: “A further four well results, targeting a substantial net un-risked resource of 3.0 TCF (500 boe) are anticipated by early September.”
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