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    1. Drilling & Completion

    Stena Forth preparing to drill offshore Peru

    Jan. 15, 2020
    The drillship Stena Forth is at the Port of Callao in Lima preparing for a program in Peru’s offshore Tumbes basin.
    (Courtesy Stena Drilling)
    The drillship Stena Forth will drill the Marina-1 exploration well in block Z-38 offshore Peru.
    The drillship Stena Forth will drill the Marina-1 exploration well in block Z-38 offshore Peru.

    Offshore staff

    MELBOURNE, Australia – The drillship Stena Forth is at the Port of Callao in Lima preparing for a program in Peru’s offshore Tumbes basin.

    Once customs clearance and final permits have come through, the vessel should be ready to spud the Marina-1 exploration well in block Z-38 during the final week of January.

    Karoon is the operator, in partnership with Tullow Oil and Pitkin Petroleum. Drilling should take around 60 days to complete, according to Tullow.

    Marina is a large fault bounded structure with targets at multiple levels in the Tertiary Pliocene La Cruz to Cardalitos formations. Karoon estimates potential resources of up to 256 MMbbl of oil.

    (Map courtesy Karoon)
    Location of the Marina-1 exploration well in block Z-38 offshore Peru.
    Location of the Marina-1 exploration well in block Z-38 offshore Peru.

    01/15/2020