Morocco: Mazagan well fails

Australia’s Pura Vida Energy has failed to find hydrocarbons with a first well drilled on the Mazagan permit and has put back a planned second well to 2016. The MZ-1 well was drilled to a total depth of 6,150 metres through three Jurassic fans. Freeport-McMoRan farmed into the permit in January 2013 and will finance a second deep-water well, whose location is currently being selected. “A decision has been made to release the Atwood Achiever from that second well slot,” said managing director Damon Neaves.