Every well in deepwater Mozambique, since 2010, has had some quantifiable footage of hydrocarbon.
Enter Statoil, the Norweigian explorer, and a dry hole suddenly shows up.
“The Buzio-1 exploration well in Area 2 offshore Mozambique has not encountered hydrocarbons and, following the completion of logging operations, has been plugged and abandoned”, reports Tullow Oil a minority stakeholder in the asset.
The Buzio-1 well is the second deepwater exploration well drilled in Area 2 and targeted stratigraphic traps in channel systems of Tertiary and Upper Cretaceous ages. “Good quality water bearing reservoir sandstones were found in both targets”, Tullow says. The Discoverer Americas dynamically positioned drill ship drilled Buzio-1 to a final depth of 3,333 metres in water depths of 1,534 metres.
Tullow has a 25% interest in Areas 2 and 5 in the Romuva Basin, offshore Mozambique. Statoil 40% are the operator while INPEX have a 25% non-operated interest. ENH (Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos, E.P.) have a 10% carried interest.
The partners are convinced that “having encountered hydrocarbons with the Cachalote-1 well, we have acquired valuable information from the Buzio-1 dry hole. We will now combine the data from both offshore Mozambique wells with our extensive seismic in this licence area and determine our next steps.”
