Offshore staff
LONDON – Oil production has started from the Okoro field extension offshore southeast Nigeria at a stabilized rate of 5,000 b/d.
Operator and partner Amni International Petroleum Development Co. drilled the Okoro-14 (Okoro field extension) development well from the Okoro main field wellhead platform, with the aim to establish early production from thenew field extension reported in January.
The well targeted Tertiary reservoir sands within a new play comprising a deeper buried horst block structure. The well has been completed and brought onstream via theOkoro FPSO, and is currently the most productive well drilled in the Okoro area to date.
It has lifted overall output from the Okoro area to about 21,500 b/d.
The jackupAdriatic IX has since relocated to Afren’s Ebok field for a program that includes drilling of a development well to similarly establish early production from the Ebok north fault block discovery announced in May.
10/31/2012
