Senegal: Fourth well for Cairn JV

Cairn Energy and its partners have secured the Ocean Rig Athena for a fourth well in the current campaign offshore Senegal. The SNE-4 well spudded in mid-April, 5km south-east of the NNE-1 discovery well. The well aims to appraise the eastern extent of the field, and confirm the nature of the upper reservoirs in the oil zone. SNE-4 will be drilled to a total depth of 3,020 metres in a water depth of 940 metres.