EXPLORATION

Rugborne-1 jumps the cue for early spudding

Apache Energy has spudded the Rugborne-1 exploration well in EP-363, 15 kilometres east southeast...

Rugborne-1 jumps the cue for early spudding

The well schedule originally provided for the drilling of two step out wells (Taunton-4 and Blackthorn-1) to appraise the recently discovered Taunton oil field in TP/7.

Following Taunton-4 and Blackthorn-1, the rig was to be mobilised to install the Linda platform on the Linda gas/condensate field in the Harriet Joint Venture acreage.

However, due to the imminent arrival of the Linda platform and some delays in completing Gudrun-2 as a production well, Apache has decided to bring forward the drilling of the Rugborne-1 exploration well in EP-363 as it is just 15 kilometres away from the Gudrun-2 location and also nearby to the Linda field.

Taunton-4 and Blackthorn-1 in TP/7, some 98 kilometres to the southwest have been re-scheduled to be drilled following completion of the Linda platform installation operations.

The Rugborne prospect is located 8kms south of the Linda gas and condensate field. The well is targeting possible stacked pay zones in interpreted stratigraphic traps on the eastern margin of the Barrow Sub- Basin.

EP-363 Joint Venture Participants are Tap Oil Limited 13.6063%, Apache Energy Limited (Operator) 73.6037%, Kufpec Australia Pty Ltd 12.79%.

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