Chariot begins drilling campaign offshore Morocco
Chariot Ltd. received the Stena Don drilling rig on location in the Lixus license, offshore Morocco, to carry out drilling operations on the Anchois gas development project.
Work to drill the Anchois-2 gas appraisal and exploration well and re-enter the Anchois-1 gas discovery well are expected to take about 40 days.
Objectives for Anchois-2 are to confirm gas resource volumes, reservoir quality, and well productivity of the discovered sands, provide a future production well for field development, and deepen the appraisal well into additional low-risk exploration targets with the aim to establish a larger resource base for longer term growth.
Objectives for Anchois-1 re-entry are to assess integrity of the well, evaluate productivity and gas characteristics of the discovered A Gas Sand, and provide a second future production well for field development.
Chariot is operator of Lixus (75%). Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (ONHYM) holds the remaining 25%.
Alex Procyk | Upstream Editor
Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).