French supermajor TotalEnergies is planning in 2024 to ultimately drill a high-impact doubtlessly big prospect offshore Papua New Guinea, the spudding of which that has already been derailed for some 4 years — not least due to the Covid pandemic.
TotalEnergies will want a drillship to drill its deep-water frontier Mailu wildcat situated on Petroleum Prospecting Licence (PPL) 576 inside the offshore Japanese Papuan plateau, which the operator earlier mentioned could be concentrating on a prospect with greater than 500 million barrels of equal of risked potential useful resource.
If profitable, the Mailu-1 wildcat — the first-ever probe on the block — that may goal an enormous Tertiary carbonate oil prospect, might open a brand new ultra-deepwater offshore play.
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Addressing this week’s Seapex convention in Singapore, TotalEnergies’ geoscience and reservoir director Asia Pacific, Thierry Thomas, confirmed the 14,784 sq. kilometre block hosts big carbonate prospects with liquids potential in a considerably de-risked basin.
Water depths at PPL 576, which has an efficient date of 30 November 2016, vary as much as 2500 metres.
Mailu-1, situated 60 kilometres from the PNG coast, will probably be drilled from a water depth of 2000 metres.
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TotalEnergies additionally operates the contiguous PPL 589 that lies largely offshore southern PNG and likewise has a small onshore half, which has an efficient date of 31 October 2017.
Right here the main target is on vital knowledge acquisition and prospect maturation with a possible de-risking programme involving a 3D seismic survey. Water depths on the 15,650-square kilometre PPL 589 are as much as 2500 metres.
Each licences have multi-play prospectivity with “a excessive potential” for fluid hydrocarbons and have ready-to-drill high-impact materials sources, in response to TotalEnergies.
