Apache targets fresh wells off Suriname

摘要

US independent Apache is lining up appraisal and exploration drilling programmes off Suriname next year after unveiling what it called a "major" oil discovery, with test results suggesting it is the best well drilled to date on Block 58. Kwaskwasi-1, the third successive discovery well on the block, was drilled in 1000 metres of water, probing to a depth of about 6645 metres and testing hydrocarbons in multiple stacked targets in Upper Cretaceous-aged Campa-nian and Santonian intervals. Preliminary fluid samples and test results indicate at least 278 meters of net oil and gas condensate pay in two intervals. The shallower Campano-Maas-trichtian interval contains 63 metres of net oil pay and 86 metres of net volatile oil and gas condensate pay, according to preliminary results. Teams are still logging wireline data on the deeper Santonian reservoir, which contains 129 metres of net hydrocarbon pay.