Cairn Energy completes Senegal drilling program

Cairn Energy completes Senegal drilling program

EDINBURGH, United Kingdom -- Cairn Energy and its JV partners have completed drilling operations on the SNE-1 well in Senegal and plans are now underway to appraise the discovery next year.

Having discovered oil in the upper clastic target, no hydrocarbons were subsequently encountered in the deeper target of karstified and fractured Lower Cretaceous shelf carbonates. Following completion of logging operations, the well will be plugged and abandoned.

The SNE-1 well, located in 1,100 m of water and approximately 100 km offshore in the Sangomar Offshore block, was drilled to a total depth of approximately 3,000 m.

Cairn has a 40% working interest in three blocks offshore Senegal (Sangomar Deep, Sangomar Offshore and Rufisque), ConocoPhillips has a 35% working interest, FAR holds a 15% working interest and Petrosen, the national oil company of Senegal, has 10%.  The three blocks cover 7,490 sq. km.