DRILLING

Santos spuds Indonesian wildcat

A SANTOS-led Indonesian joint venture yesterday started drilling the Wortel-1 exploration well in 42m of water in the Sampang Production Sharing Contract, offshore East Java in Indonesia.

Santos spuds Indonesian wildcat

Wortel-1 is being drilled as a vertical well to test the equivalent limestone reservoir to the Oyong oil and gas field 7km west, in a fault-dependent structural closure.

The well is expected to take about 20 days to reach a total depth of 1500m.

The Sampang PSC JV comprises Santos (operator with a 40.5% stake), Singapore Petroleum (36%), Cue Energy (13.5%) and PT Petrogas (10%).

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