EXPLORATION

Ugly but not big

GULF of Mexico explorer Entek Energy says an exploration well targeting the Big Ugly Fat Boy prospect has failed to encounter commercial hydrocarbons.

Ugly but not big

The prospect was a shallow target identified by high quality 3D seismic and was interpreted to have a strong amplitude anomaly similar to thick gas pays in adjacent blocks.

However, Entek said electric logs run over the OCS-G 24420-2 well indicated the target zone at this location was water-wet.

As a result, the joint venture is moving to plug and abandon the well, which was drilled to a total depth of 4886m, as a duster.

Entek participated in the drilling of this well, after farming-in with a 15% to two blocks – A300 and A301 – in the outer continental shelf region of the GoM earlier this month.

Each block covers 5760 acres and both are in about 190 feet of water.

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