ExxonMobil Scores Third Oil Find Offshore Guyana

The Snoek well, southeast of the Liza discovery, hit high-quality oil-bearing sandstone reservoirs, the company said.

Eni: Mexico Find Could Hold Over 800 MMbbl Of Oil In Place

Earlier this month the major said it had found “meaningful” reserves of oil offshore Mexico after becoming the first international oil company to drill a well in the country following a 2013 reform to open up the sector to investors.

Hurricane’s Halifax Finds Hydrocarbons West Of Shetland Islands

Hurricane Energy’s Halifax well has encountered a hydrocarbon column of at least 1,156 m (3,792 ft), supporting its view that the prospect is linked to the Lancaster Field to form a single large hydrocarbon accumulation, the company said in a news release March 27.

Empire Discovers Light Oil Play In Australia

The company plans to perform a three- to six-month extended production test starting in third-quarter 2017, following the completion in April of a light oil resource volume assessment, to help determine the commerciality of the discovery.

Cairn Flows Oil From SNE-5 Offshore Senegal

The first DST flowed from an 18 m interval at a maximum rate of about 4,500 barrels of oil per day on a 60/64-in. choke. For the second DST, an additional 8.5-m zone was added, and the well flowed at a maximum rate of 4,200 bbl/d.

ExxonMobil Scores Again Offshore Guyana With Another Oil Find

To better gauge resource potential, ExxonMobil said the discovery is being evaluated with two sidetracks drilled. A well test is underway.

W&T Offshore Hits Oil Pay At GoM’s Mahogany Field

Advanced seismic data helped the company discover additional pay.

GeoPark Reports Expansion Of Jacana Oil Field In Colombia

A test conducted with an electric submersible pump in the Guadalupe Formation across multiple sand units resulted in a production rate of about 1,800 barrels of oil per day (bbl/d) of 16 degrees API, with a 17% water cut through a choke of 38/64 mm and wellhead pressure of 80 pounds per square inch, the company said.

Fifth Zohr Appraisal Well Confirms Resource Potential

Drilled to a total depth of 144,350 meters (m), the Zohr 5x well encountered a continuous hydrocarbon column of about 180 m. The results confirm Zohr’s potential of 30 Tcf original gas in place.

GeoPark Finds More Oil In Colombia’s Jacana Field

GeoPark said the well was drilled 780 m north of the Jacana 3 appraisal well further down dip to a bottom-hole location below the previous lowest-known oil, where it hit oil in the Guadalupe Formation.