Wednesday, 21 May 2014

Repsol hit with further delays offshore Namibia: Welwitschia


  • Welwitschia prospect being drilled on PEL0010: Repsol (44%*), Tower (30%), Arcardia (26%)
  • Welwitschia-1 spud last month
    • Due to issues with wellhead housing, well was plugged and abandoned
    • Decision made to drill Welwitschia-1A 50m away, which was spud 1 May 2014
  • Welwitschia-1A now at 1,879m but problems with blowout preventer system has halted drilling
  • Prospect estimated to have multi-billion bbl potential and is being drilled to test the Maastrichtian and Aptian-Albian reservoir sequences

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