TULLOW Oil will likely decide on the target for its second upcoming well on Guyana's offshore Orinduik block this month, with the shortlist of candidates believed to have grown slightly, writes Eoin O'Cinneide. The Anglo-Irish independent and its partners, French super-major Total and London-listed junior Eco Atlantic Oil & Gas, have recently confirmed the charter of the drillship Stena Forth for the first wildcat on the block, targeting the Jethro-Lobe prospect. The rig is currently operating for Tullow off Ghana after the operator last year took it as its second drilling unit across its Jubilee and Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) acreage. The rig will leave West Africa in late May and should be available to start drilling just days after arriving on Orinduik, Eco chief executive Gil Holzman said. "It is a hot rig, which is a big advantage. It is up and running and the crew is there and continuously drilling," Holzman told Upstream, adding of a possible spud date: "I think the first week of June is most likely."
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