Borders and Southern starts Falkland drilling campaign
Feb. 1, 2012
The semisubmersible Leiv Eiriksson has spudded the first-ever exploration well south of the Falkland Islands for UK independent Borders & Southern (B&S) Petroleum.
Offshore staff
LONDON – The semisubmersible Leiv Eiriksson has spudded the first-ever exploration well south of the Falkland Islands for UK independent Borders & Southern (B&S) Petroleum.
Well 61/17-1 is being drilled 140 km (87 mi) south of the islands in license PL0178, where B&S holds a 100% interest.
It will test the Darwin East prospect, a fault/dip closed structure with a Lower Cretaceous sandstone reservoir target. It will also investigate geophysical attributes that include a flat spot, amplitude conformance to structure and an AVO anomaly.
