Woodside Buys ConocoPhillips’s Senegal interests
Senegal B.V. The total purchase price was US$350 million plus net customary adjustments of approximately US$90 million. Woodside CEO Peter Coleman said the acquisition was an exciting addition to Woodside’s global growth portfolio. “We look forward to working with the Government of Senegal and joint venture participants Cairn Energy, FAR Limited, and Petrosen, the Senegal National Oil Company, to progress the commercial development of the SNE and FAN discoveries. “Woodside will bring to the joint venture expertise in deep water drilling, development and operation of
Cairn Firms up Senegal Drill Efforts
Cairn and its joint venture partners have submitted a three year evaluation work plan to the Government of Senegal including an initial programme of three firm and three optional exploration and appraisal wells, with drilling starting in Q4 2015 in Cairn’s new basin play offshore Senegal focused on the acreage around the SNE-1 discovery well. Cairn estimates that the existing two discoveries and the currently identified prospects and leads have an estimated mean risked resource base of more than a billion barrels. The Ocean Rig Athena, a 7th generation dual activity drillship has been
Cairn Makes Second Senegal Find
logging of the SNE-1 well has confirmed hydrocarbons in the Cretaceous clastics objective which is of similar age to oil bearing sands found approximately 24 km away in FAN-1. As operator, Cairn has now issued Notices of Discovery for the SNE-1 well and FAN-1 well to the Government of Senegal on behalf of the Joint Venture. Initial analysis of the SNE-1 well indicates: * 95m gross oil bearing column with a gas cap * Excellent reservoir sands with net oil pay of 36m * Oil of 32 degrees API from samples of gas, oil and water recovered to surface &nbs
February 2024
