Castanha-2 Appraisal Well, Onshore Angola
Lacula Oil Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of ROC, advises that the Castanha-2 appraisal well has been drilled to a total measured depth of 2,448 meters and has been suspended.
Initial evaluation has indicated that the well encountered a gross hydrocarbon column of 21 meters in the Chela Formation.
Production testing is planned to commence during October after the Castanha-3 appraisal well has been drilled. Castanha-3 is expected to spud in the coming week.
Cormoran-1 Exploration Well, Offshore Mauritania
Roc Oil (Mauritania) Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of ROC, advises that the Cormoran-1 exploration well started drilling at 2000 hours (Mauritania time) on 18 September. At 0600 hours on 19 September (Mauritania time) the well was drilling ahead at a measured depth of 1,760 meters.
Cormoran-1 is located in Block 7, offshore Mauritania, approximately 2 kilometers southeast of the Pelican-1 gas discovery. The planned total depth of the well is approximately 4,600 meters and the well is located in a water depth of 1,630 meters.
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