The Hurricane well lies in the Carnarvon Basin about 8 km from the Legendre oil production facility in the adjacent WA1P permit.
The prospect is estimated to hold 75 million barrels of oil in-place. The reservoir target for the well is the Eliassen Formation within the upper channel sand of a deepwater fan.
Santos and Woodside’s partners in the project are ENI Australia and Mosaic Oil. This is Mosaic’s first external exploration well since it found success in Queensland’s Surat-Bowen Basin.
Santos Offshore Pty Ltd will be operating the A$6.25 million (estimated) well on behalf of the WA-208-P joint venture.
Mosaic’s current farm out of 1.46% of its 7.46% interest in the permit to Santos Ltd will lower Mosaic’s up-front costs in the venture to less than 5%.
Following the farm out by Mosaic to Santos, interests in WA-208-P will be Santos Offshore Pty Ltd (operator) 29.85%; Santos Ltd 11.46%; Woodside Energy Ltd 34.03%; ENI Australia 18.66%; and Mosaic Oil N.L. 6.00%.
