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Thursday, April 27, 2017
Rockhopper Exploration started drilling the first well in its 2017 drilling campaign on the Abu Sennan Concession in Egypt. The Al Jahraa SE-2X, on the recently awarded Abu Sennan-5 Development Lease, was spud on April 25 by Kuwait Energy (operator).
The Al Al Jahraa SE-2X is the first well in a two-well drilling program.
The well will target the Cretaceous Abu Roash-C reservoir in the fault block immediately to the south of the Al Jahraa South East discovery location where, if successful, it could add over 20 mmbbls of STOIIP to the development lease.
The well is anticipated to take approx. 40 days to drill and evaluate, and in the success case would be immediately completed as an oil producer.
Following completion of the Al Jahraa SE-2X well, the rig will move to the Al Jahraa-9 location to drill a development well which will target the AR-C reservoir at a location deeper than the current deepest oil penetration at Al Jahraa-4. The aim will be to demonstrate the connection between the Al Jahraa and Al Jahraa South East fields through the oil leg.
In addition, the operator has proposed two work-over operations during Q2 2017.
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