CNOOC lets drilling contract for work offshore Gabon
CNOOC Africa Holding Ltd. (CNOOC) let a contract to Stena Drilling for the Stena Icemax mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) for a two-well program offshore Gabon.
The program is scheduled for first-quarter 2023 and has an estimated total campaign duration of 90 days.
CNOOC Africa Holding is operator in licenses BC9 and BCD10 offshore Gabon with 100% working interest.
In 2014, a large deepwater gas discovery on BCD10 was announced following drilling and appraisal of the Leopard-1 well about 145 km off the coast (OGJ Online, Oct. 22, 2014). Multiple presalt and postsalt prospects and leads have been identified with high exploration potential, the company said.
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).
