TotalEnergies' Venus test drilling is hit by delay

摘要

TOTALENERGIES has been forced to delay a production test on its Venus-1 discovery well offshore Namibia due to operational issues with its chosen drilling rig. To date, the French supermajor is believed to have discovered about 2 billion barrels of oil at Venus, although the results of an ongoing exploration and appraisal drilling campaign could see this resource number increase significantly. The Vantage-owned drillship Tungsten Explorer is close to completing the Venus-1A appraisal probe, 13 kilometres north of the original discovery well. Upstream reported recently that the well hit reservoir as expected. TotalEnergies has also chartered the semi-submersible Deepsea Mira for the Namibia E&A programme, with the rig arriving in Walvis Bay this week.