Karoon, LLOG Start Drilling at Who Dat South in GOM

Karoon Power Restricted has introduced that drilling has began at Who Dat South within the Gulf of Mexico.

Who Dat South is situated 6.8 miles (11 kilometers) west of the Who Dat floating manufacturing system (FPS), at a water depth of roughly 2,559 toes (780 meters).

Asset operator LLOG Exploration Firm LLC stated that the Seadrill West Neptune drillship spudded the Who Dat South exploration properly, MC 545-1, situated offshore within the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

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The properly will check two amplitude-supported Miocene turbidite reservoir prospects, with the shallower goal analogous to productive zones throughout the Who Dat fields, Karoon stated in a press release. The properly can be drilled as a deviated gap with a complete measured depth of roughly 24,606 toes (7,500 meters) and is anticipated to take 50 to 60 days to drill and consider.

The properly lies inside tie-back distance of each the Who Dat G subsea manifold and the Who Dat FPS, Karoon stated.

The Who Dat South prospect is estimated to comprise 31 million barrels of oil equal (MMboe) of gross unrisked Potential 2U Assets, equal to 7.6 MMboe internet to Karoon on a internet income curiosity foundation, Karoon stated, citing impartial knowledgeable Netherland Sewell and Associates, Inc.

The Who Dat East three way partnership members on a working curiosity foundation are operator LLOG with a forty five % stake, Karoon with 30 %, and Westlawn Americas Offshore with 25 %.

Who Dat is a traditional deepwater oil and gasoline operation situated in roughly 2624.7 toes (800 meters) of water offshore Louisiana throughout the federal waters of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

The Who Dat improvement, which got here onstream in 2011, has present manufacturing of 42,000 barrels of oil equal per day (boepd), consisting of roughly 60 % oil and 40 % gasoline, from 9 wells. The output is processed via a floating manufacturing system facility and transported to markets via widespread service pipelines.

Within the firm’s most up-to-date earnings launch, Karoon CEO and Managing Director Julian Fowles stated, “Within the US, the Who Dat operator, LLOG, and the three way partnership companions have been working to establish, consider and implement alternatives to optimise and maintain manufacturing. Along with up to date administration of facility constraints, this has translated into manufacturing at Who Dat growing to charges above 42,000 boepd [barrels of oil equivalent per day] late within the half yr, previous to pure decline resuming. A number of further value-accretive, medium time period, in-field alternatives to doubtlessly mitigate pure decline are being evaluated. 2024 Who Dat manufacturing steering, which takes into consideration a deliberate program of amenities upkeep and testing within the second half, is unchanged at 3.0–3.5 MMboe on a Web Income Curiosity foundation”.

“The Who Dat East exploration/appraisal properly was efficiently drilled throughout 1H24, intersecting liquids-rich gasoline condensate as prognosed, in 45 meters of excellent high quality internet pay in a collection of Miocene turbidite reservoirs. The properly has been suspended as a possible future producer. The useful resource base is being up to date and the commerciality of a possible Who Dat East tieback improvement is being evaluated utilizing the information collected. In the meantime, the Seadrill West Neptune drillship is scheduled to spud the Who Dat South exploration properly in September and the three way partnership has not too long ago accepted the third exploration properly, Who Dat West, which is deliberate to spud in direction of the top of the yr,” Fowles added.

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