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VR-1 delivers good oil

FAR and its partners Woodside Petroleum and Cairn Energy have delivered the eighth successful well in the SNE oil field, offshore Senegal, with the VR-1 well delivering the highest net pay in any well drilled to date in the west of the giant field.

VR1 schematic.

VR1 schematic.

The well, a last-minute addition to the Stena DrillMAX dance card following cost and time savings from the earlier SNE-5 well, has reached a depth of 2759m, finding a 97m gross oil column, in line with...

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