Senegal: Fan South well spuds

Operator Cairn Energy has spudded the Fan South-1 well on the Sangomar Deep licence, described by partner Far as the first pure exploration well since the Fan-1 and SNE-1 discoveries in 2014. The well is being drilled into the South Fan prospect targeting 134m barrels of recoverable oil in several stacked reservoir targets within tieback range to the planned SNE development in the event of success.Appraisal is now complete on the SNE field, where the partners are aiming for first oil in 2021.