Premier Oil Hired Ensco To Drill The Berimbau / Maraca Assets In Block 717 In The Ceará Basin
Premier Oil hired the Ensco drillship Valaris DS-9 to drill the stacked prospects of Berimbau / Maraca in Block 717 in the Ceará Basin, offshore Brazil. The well, due to spud in Q3, will target a potential resource of 300 MMbbl (operator Premier, 50%).
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Blocks CE-M-717 (50% working interest); Block CE-M-661 (30% working interest in the operation). The Ceará Basin is a Cretaceous rift basin with source rocks prone to large quantities of oil, with parity.
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Illustration Of The Prospect That Ensco Will Drill For Premier Oil
Acquisition History
The 3D multi-client seismic of Premier’s two blocks in the Ceará Basin was received in 2016, and 4,000 km2 of broadband final seismic data was processed and received in April 2017.
Premier was actively engaging with platform contractors with available units in the country for a joint well program between Blocks 717 and 661.
In Block 717, Premier plans to drill a well in 2020 targeting the Berimbau and Maraca assets.
In Block 616, the joint venture aims to achieve alignment on the final well location to test the Itarema and Tatajuba assets soon, with drilling scheduled for 2021. The two wells will test over 500 MMbbls of combined gross prospective resources.

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