UK multinational company, Tullow Oil, plans to drill its third well prospect in the Repsol-operated Kanuku license off Guyana, which contains the Carapa prospect.
The Carapa-1 well on the Kanuku block is expected to be drilled in the third quarter of 2019. The Carapa prospect is a 200 million barrel Cretaceous target located in 70 meters of water and will be drilled using a jack-up rig.
Repsol has already awarded a drilling contract to Rowan’s EXL II jack-up rig for operations off Guyana. The contract is for one well beginning in the third quarter of 2019 with a duration of approximately 45 days. Preparations for this well are ongoing.
As for its other two wildcat wells, Tullow Oil said that this is planned for the Orinduik Block from June 2019 using the Stena Forth drillship.
The first well will target the Jethro prospect which is a Lower Tertiary target in approximately 1,350 meters of water.
The second well will be the Joe prospect, an Upper Tertiary target in water depths of approximately 650 meters. The plan is to start drilling the Joe well immediately after the completion of the Jethro drilling, in mid-July 2019.
Both wells are targeting prospects of 100 to 200 million barrels of oil.
