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Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Panoro Energy announced that following the discovery in May of a north-eastern extension at the Hibiscus South field, the DHBSM-2H production well has successfully been drilled into the discovery, completed and was handed over to production operations without incident on July 25. The DHBSM-2H well was drilled with the Borr Norve jack-up drilling rig and encountered good quality oil saturated reservoir sands in the regionally prolific Gamba reservoir.
This well is the first to be completed with the new conventional ESP system and will be put onstream shortly after hook up and testing.
The Dussafu partners have also extended the contract for the Borr Norve jack-up drilling rig until February 2025, Panoro states. With the delivery of all conventional ESP systems (including spares) now secured the forward work plan is to successively workover the previously drilled and completed wells, installing conventional ESP systems, and drill one production well into the recently discovered northern flank of the Hibiscus field.
The current campaign will therefore result in a total of eight new production wells across the Hibiscus / Hibiscus South / Ruche fields (in addition to the six pre-existing production wells at the Tortue field). The increased well inventory will allow for an extended production plateau for this current phase of the Hibiscus development.
The rig contract extension is also expected to include the drilling of a well to test the Bourdon Prospect which is located in a water depth of 115 meters approximately 7 kms to the southeast of the BW Mabomo production facility and 14 kilometers west of the BW Adolo FPSO. The Bourdon Prospect has an estimated mid-case potential of 83 million barrels in place and 29 million barrels recoverable in the Gamba and Dentale formations.
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